November 14, 2013 : The United States on November 14, 2013 designated Nigeria's radical Islamist Boko Haram Network and an offshoot known as Ansaru as terror groups, bowing to months of pressure to act. The groups have spread terror in northeastern and central Nigeria and are blamed for thousands of deaths as they battle to set up an Islamic state. A new UN report released showed more than 37,000 people have fled the region since the Nigerian army launched a crackdown on the militants in May. An earlier version of the group, known then in local reports as the "Nigerian Taliban", was formed in 2004 and is now believed to have a number of different factions, with differing aims. Boko Haram is blamed for indiscriminate attacks in Benisheikh, Nigeria in September 2012 in which some 160 people were killed, and was also said to be behind the suicide bombing of a UN building in Abuja in August 2011. Ansaru has focused attacks on Nigerian military and Western targets, kidnapping several foreigners. They are believed to have been behind the kidnapping of a French family seized on the border of Cameroon and Nigeria in February and released in April. Boko Haram:
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What: US lists Boko Haram as terror group When: November 12, 2013 Where: Washington |
Thursday 14 November 2013
US lists Boko Haram as terror group
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