NewsTracker: boko haramThis is a news tracking demoUN chief remembers 23 killed in Boko Haram bomb in Nigeria2015-08-24T14:32:33Z2015-08-24T14:32:33Z<p>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Monday to 23 colleagues killed four years ago in a Boko Haram car bombing at his organization's Nigeria headquarters.</p>2015-08-24T14:32:33ZSuspected Boko Haram militants ambush Nigeria's chief of army staff convoy2015-08-23T22:20:00Z2015-08-23T22:20:00Z<p>A convoy carrying Nigeria's chief of army staff has been ambushed by suspected Boko Haram militants.</p>2015-08-23T22:20:00ZUN chief coming to Nigeria to mark bombing, abducted girls2015-08-23T12:14:18Z2015-08-23T12:14:18Z<p>U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to arrive in Nigeria Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization's headquarters and focus new attention on 219 schoolgirls held by the extremists.</p>2015-08-23T12:14:18ZNigerian army chief escapes Boko Haram ambush2015-08-22T18:39:39Z2015-08-22T18:39:39Z<p>NGALA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's new army chief drove to the frontline of the war on Boko Haram and narrowly missed an ambush that killed one soldier and wounded two.</p><p>Nigeria's military has said it has been plagued by leaked information from Boko Haram sympathizers in its ranks.</p>2015-08-22T18:39:39ZBoko Haram strengthens ties with Islamic State group2015-08-22T13:10:15Z2015-08-22T13:10:15Z<p>Further evidence of Boko Haram's links with IS is the arrest on Aug. 15 by Lebanese authorities of hard-line IS cleric Ahmad al-Assir at Beirut airport.</p>2015-08-22T13:10:15ZBoko Haram strengthens ties with Islamic State group2015-08-22T13:05:33Z2015-08-22T13:05:33Z<p>An estimated 80 to 200 Boko Haram fighters are in the Libyan city of Sirte, according to Nigeria analyst Jacob Zenn, in The Sentinel magazine of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation.</p>2015-08-22T13:05:33ZBoko Haram strengthens ties with Islamic State group2015-08-22T13:05:33Z2015-08-22T13:05:33Z<p>Boko Haram pledged allegiance to IS in March and in June was declared its West African province.</p><p>Algerian security forces believe Boko Haram fighters have joined other militants in northern Niger, he wrote.</p>2015-08-22T13:05:33ZUp to 150 drown, shot fleeing Boko Haram ambush in Nigeria: villagers2015-08-18T19:49:43Z2015-08-18T19:49:43Z<p>Up to 150 people have drowned in a river or been shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen who raided a remote village in Nigeria's north-eastern Yobe state, locals say.</p>2015-08-18T19:49:43ZBoko Haram Boss Denies He's Been Replaced2015-08-17T07:38:40Z2015-08-17T07:38:40Z2015-08-17T07:38:40ZBoko Haram leader Shekau says he is alive2015-08-17T01:46:08Z2015-08-17T01:46:08Z2015-08-17T01:46:08ZCameroon pledges 2,450 troops to anti-Boko Haram force2015-08-15T10:46:57Z2015-08-15T10:46:57Z2015-08-15T10:46:57ZCameroon pledges 2,450 troops to anti-Boko Haram force2015-08-15T10:46:57Z2015-08-15T10:46:57Z<p>At a meeting in Cameroon in February, Nigeria and a group of neighboring countries that also includes Chad, Niger and Benin agreed to deploy around 8,700 troops against Boko Haram, which became an affiliate of the Islamic State group earlier this year.</p>2015-08-15T10:46:57ZBoko Haram fight: Nigeria's army says 178 captives rescued2015-08-03T03:47:12Z2015-08-03T03:47:12Z<p>Boko Haram was pushed out of most of the vast swathes of territory it controlled at the start of the year but they have dispersed and returned to their guerilla tactics of hitting soft targets with bombs, and raiding towns.</p>2015-08-03T03:47:12ZNigeria: Army rescued 178 people from Boko Haram2015-08-03T01:18:00Z2015-08-03T01:18:00Z<p>Hundreds have been freed from Boko Haram captivity this year but none of the 219 girls abducted in April 2014 from a school in Chibok were among those rescued.</p><p>Some of those rescued last week said they had been held by Boko Haram for up to one year in villages just 25 miles from Maiduguri.</p>2015-08-03T01:18:00ZNigeria's army says it has rescued 178 people held captive by Boko Haram2015-08-02T23:27:46Z2015-08-02T23:27:46Z<p>He added that a Boko Haram commander had also been captured and several militant camps were cleared around the town of Bama, about 70 km south-east of the state capital Maiduguri.</p><p>Nigeria's airforce also said that it helped ground troops repel an attack by Boko Haram around the village of Bitta on the southern edge of the Sambisa forest reserve, a stronghold of the militant group.</p>2015-08-02T23:27:46ZNigeria rescues 178 captives from Boko Haram2015-08-02T22:57:49Z2015-08-02T22:57:49Z<p>Boko Haram has been waging a six-year insurgency in the northeast of Africa's biggest economy in an attempt to establish an Islamist state adhering to strict sharia law.</p>2015-08-02T22:57:49ZNigeria's Army Says Rescued 178 Captives of Boko Haram2015-08-02T22:49:31Z2015-08-02T22:49:31Z<p>ABUJA - Nigeria's army said late on Sunday that it rescued 178 people held by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria's Borno state, the heartland of the insurgency.</p>2015-08-02T22:49:31ZNigerian army: Troops rescue 178 captives, most children, destroy 8 Boko Haram camps2015-08-02T22:17:16Z2015-08-02T22:17:16Z<p>Nigerian troops rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several camps of the Islamic extremists in the northeast of the country, an army statement said Sunday, Aug. 2.</p>2015-08-02T22:17:16ZNigeria: Review of soldiers condemned in Boko Haram war2015-08-02T17:20:32Z2015-08-02T17:20:32Z<p>The review comes three months after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has vowed to crush the Boko Haram Islamic uprising which has spilled across Nigeria's borders.</p>2015-08-02T17:20:32ZNigeria appoints new leader in fight against Boko Haram2015-07-31T01:14:15Z2015-07-31T01:14:15Z<p>LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's Defense Ministry has appointed a new general to head the multinational army to fight Boko Haram.</p>2015-07-31T01:14:15ZNew Nigerian general to head multinational Boko Haram fight2015-07-30T21:55:39Z2015-07-30T21:55:39Z<p>Chad announced Thursday that its troops killed 13 Boko Haram fighters in attacks this week near Lake Chad, where militants slit the throats of three villagers.</p>2015-07-30T21:55:39ZNigeria rescues 71, mostly women and girls, from Boko Haram2015-07-30T20:48:02Z2015-07-30T20:48:02Z<p>Women and children rescued by Nigerian soldiers from Boko Haram extremists in the northeast of Nigeria arrive at the military office in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, July 30, 2015.</p><p>Soldiers rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed many Boko Haram militants in villages near the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria's military said Thursday.</p>2015-07-30T20:48:02ZNigerian leader visits Cameroon as Boko Haram attacks2015-07-28T14:57:14Z2015-07-28T14:57:14Z<p>"The two countries are intertwined and have no choice but to have a relationship to deal with Boko Haram," said Chris Fomunyoh, an analyst with the Washington-based National Democratic Institute.</p><p>On Monday, Boko Haram killed at least 29 people in two Christian villages in northeast Nigeria, while in Cameroon, suicide bombings claimed 60 lives over the past week.</p>2015-07-28T14:57:14ZNigerian leader visits Cameroon as Boko Haram attacks2015-07-28T11:56:59Z2015-07-28T11:56:59Z<p>More recently, Nigeria accused Cameroon of doing little to prevent Boko Haram from using their territory as a refuge.</p>2015-07-28T11:56:59Z