An attack Monday on the village of Bakali, in the Giwa region, by several armed attackers killed at least 25 civilians and injured many others. In Rann, an isolated locality on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, three militiamen were killed by insurgents who arrived on motorbikes and aboard four vehicles equipped with machine guns. On Sunday evening, at least 30 people were killed and many women and children were abducted by ISWAP, on a road leading to a village near Maiduguri. The terrorists also burned around 30 vehicles, according to a statement from the local government. Since 2009, clashes between the Nigerian armed forces and their supporters and the jihadist terrorist groups Boko Haram and ISWAP have left more than 35,000 dead and two million displaced.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 13, 2020 14:03 UTC