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Damaturu (Nigeria)

Type: City

Name: Damaturu (Nigeria)

Country: Nigeria

Latitude: 11.75

Longitude: 11.96

population: 255,913

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Nigerian Troops Move North as Attacks Continue

ABUJA — As Nigerian armed forces move into three northern states that are under emergency rule, the army says Boko Haram militants have attacked a town outside the emergency area.At a press conference Friday in the Nigerian capital, Major General Mobolaji ... [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Boko Haram, Maiduguri, Daura (Nigeria)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Attacks in Nigeria

By Ryan Aliman Impunity Watch Reporter, Africa ABUJA, Nigeria – Militant Islamist group Boko Haram just released a video where the group claimed responsibility for the recent attacks and hostage-taking in Nigeria. A screenshot from the recent ... [Published Impunity Watch - May 16 2013]

Entities: Boko Haram, Nigeria, Hostage, Damaturu (Nigeria)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Gunmen Storm Nigeria Police Station

KANO, NIGERIA — Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the no ... [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Boko Haram, Maiduguri

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Nigeria: Cell Phone Service Cut in Borno, Yobe

Yola/Maiduguri/Damaturu/Abuja Mobile phone service was turned off yesterday in Borno and Yobe, stifling social life and business activities in two of the three states affected by the proclamation of state of emergency on Tuesday.Daily Trust's correspondents ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Cellphone, Maiduguri, Biu (Nigeria), Nigeria, Damaturu (Nigeria)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Nigerian army starts offensive against Islamists

More than 2,000 soldiers and several fighter jets have been deployed in northern Nigeria in response to attacks attributed to Islamist group Boko Haram. Rights groups fear there could be more civilian deaths.The Nigerian military offensive against Boko ... [Published Deutsche Welle - May 16 2013]

Entities: Boko Haram, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Nigeria

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Nigeria Launches Massive Offensive Against Islamists

Nigeria says it has launched a "massive deployment of men and resources against Islamist insurgents, a day after the country's president declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states.The Nigerian military said in a statement Wednesday it ... [Published VOA News - May 16 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Boko Haram, Bombing

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Soldiers, Boko Haram In Fierce Battle

Nigerian soldiers have begun an offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, raiding camps in a remote northeastern park, while more than 2,000 troops have been deployed to retake territory seized by the insurgents, a military source told AFP Thursday.“Our ... [Published PM News Nigeria - May 16 2013]

Entities: Boko Haram, Maiduguri, Military/Armed Forces, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Nigeria

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

'Massive' troop deployment in Nigeria's northeast

ABUJA Nigeria's military has announced a "massive" deployment of troops to its restive northeast, after the president declared a state of emergency in areas where Islamist insurgents have seized territory. A military source speaking on condition of anonymity ... [Published Daily Nation - May 16 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Boko Haram, Chad, Military/Armed Forces, Maiduguri

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Mixed reactions trail emergency rule

Mixed reactions have trailed the declaration of the state of emergency in three states of the federation by President Goodluck Jonathan.Three states, Yobe, Borno and Adamawa, are now under emergency rule as a result of breakdown of law and order and mass ... [Published Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria - May 15 2013]

Entities: State of Emergency, emergency, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Security, Church of Nigeria

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Boko Haram Leader Reiterates Conditions for Peace

• Claims responsibility for Baga, Bama attacks• Shows video clips of kidnapped women, childrenOne of the leaders of the Boko Haram sect, Aliyu Tashaku, monday ruled out going into talks with the federal government unless it met its condition for pe ... [Published This Day Online - May 14 2013]

Entities: Boko Haram, Bama (Nigeria), Damaturu (Nigeria), Security, Kidnapping

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

'How Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram Smuggle Arms Into Nigeria'

Proliferation of small arms and light weapons is increasingly and dangerously becoming a transnational organized crime in Nigeria with Boko Haram's insurgency, re-emerging Niger Delta crisis and escalating kidnapping, communal crises and armed robbery ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 13 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Boko Haram, Ammunition, Cameroon

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 5 reports

Seven killed in Nigeria clash: military

DAMATURU, Nigeria, Thursday Military operatives in northeastern Nigeria have confirmed that seven people were killed in a shoot out at night between security troops and Boko Haram militants. The seven include 2 policemen and five gunmen suspected to be ... [Published Daily Nation - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Boko Haram, Damaturu (Nigeria), Military/Armed Forces

Quotes

..."It's difficult to tell if this is a criminal attack or part of another Islamist cell,'' one security source said. "There have been incidents in the past in Katsina but it certainly hasn't been an insurgent stronghold." Another security source said a bank was raided and prisoners were freed from the policepolice station

Gunmen Storm Nigeria Police Station [Published VOA News - May 17 2013]

"We relied on Cameroon (for network services) for a very long period of time but we woke up today (yesterday) and found out that all the signals are gone" a motorist said

Nigeria: Cell Phone Service Cut in Borno, Yobe [Published AllAfrica.com - May 17 2013]

He added that every time this happens, "it is ordinary civilians, the young people, women, children, the elderly that get caught in the cross fire."

Nigerian army starts offensive against Islamists [Published Deutsche Welle - May 16 2013]

Nigeria says it has launched a "massive deployment of men and resources against Islamist insurgents, a day after the country's president declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states."

Nigeria Launches Massive Offensive Against Islamists [Published VOA News - May 16 2013]

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Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Attacks in... [Published Impunity Watch - May 16 2013] By Ryan Aliman Impunity Watch Reporter, Africa ABUJA, Nigeria – Militant Islamist group Boko Haram just released a video where the group claimed responsibility for the recent attacks and hostage-taking in Nigeria. A screenshot from the recent ...
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JSTF TROOPS KILL 20 BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS IN GA... [Published Beegeagle's Blog - Apr 26 2013] A combined team of soldiers and MOPOL cops, normalcy restored, walk through a battle-scarred neighbourhood in the Far Northeast of Nigeria following days of urban warfare waged against invading Boko Haram terrorists, last year. DAMATURU, Nigeria ...
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