Boko Haram

A top Nigerian official was scheduled to meet the Turkish ambassador on Sept. 22 after hundreds of rifles allegedly from Turkey made it to the west African country this week falsely labelled as plumbing materials.

It was the fourth time this year Nigerian customs officers had intercepted illegal arms shipments from Turkey at the nation's ports, a customs official said.

Serbian-made machine guns, called Coyotes, made by Zastava in the town of Kragujevac, have been seen in Nigeria after reportedly being taken from Islamist terrorists fighting for Boko Haram, tweets show.

Twitter user Alex on August 12 posted two tweets that show a Coyote and another weapon lying on the ground, allegedly seized from Boko Haram fighters.

Nigeria has requested British military equipment to fight the Extreme Islamists from the Boko Haram group, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson confirmed.

He admitted that the country is seriously considering getting involved with such help.

British soldiers are already training parts of Nigerian forces in land fighting against terrorists.

UNICEF is reporting a four-fold increase in use of children as “human bombs” by the radical Boko Haram group in northeastern Nigeria already this year compared to all of 2016.

UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado says she has no explanation for the increase to 83 such “human bomb” children, two-thirds of them girls, compared to 19 total children last year.

Islamic group Boko Haram uses more and more children, mostly girls, as "human bombs" in northeastern Nigeria, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in Geneva, cited by the France press.

At least 28 people were killed and over 80 injured in triple suicide attack done by women in the city of Mandarari, 25km from Maiduguri, the capital of the Borno state, reported France Press informed by local sources.

The International Islamic University, which is expected to be established in Istanbul at the latest by 2019-2020, will "fight intellectually against organizations exploiting religion such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and Boko Haram" apart from its academic studies, daily Yeni Şafak reported on July 28. 

Boko Haram militants have kidnapped 37 women and slit the throats of nine other people at a village in south-east Niger, according to the regional governor.
The attack happened on Sunday at the village of Ngalewa, near the border with Nigeria, the governor of Diffa region, Laouali Mahamane Dan Dano, told state TV.

Nigeria said on May 6 that it had negotiated the release of 82 of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists more than three years ago, securing their freedom in a prisoner swap deal.

Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children’s agency said Monday.
In Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition while 450,000 children are severely malnourished in northeast Nigeria.