Mubi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mubi/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mubi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mubi/ 32 32 Boko Haram invades two Nigerian towns https://jjcornish.com/2014/11/boko-haram-invades-two-nigerian-towns/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/11/boko-haram-invades-two-nigerian-towns/ Boko Haram fighters have invaded two towns in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state. The jihadi action comes a day after hunters and civilian vigilantes  ousted them from a key town in that state. The Islamists raided Hong and Gombi, about 100  kms from the state capital, Yola. Earlier in the week,  they were pushed out of […]

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]]> Boko Haram fighters have invaded two towns in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state.
The jihadi action comes a day after hunters and civilian vigilantes  ousted them from a key town in that state.

The Islamists raided Hong and Gombi, about 100  kms from the state capital, Yola.
Earlier in the week,  they were pushed out of the commercial hub of Mubi, which they’d held,for a fortnight.

Boko Haram’s taken   more than two dozen towns in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states in recent months, as part of its quest to establish a hardline caliphate in the region.

The invasion of Hong and Gombi saw them move closer to Yola.

Thousands of residents have been taking refuge in the city from the violence.

The jihadis  burned down the police station, the local government secretariat and the market after overpowering the police.

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