| 5,679,958 |
5.51667 |
5.75 |
Nigeria |
|
A small group of Itsekiri men attack a boat carrying an Ijaw man and kill him. |
| 5,679,962 |
5.89405 |
5.67666 |
Nigeria |
|
A clash between an armed group and the Nigerian Navy leaves 5 dead at an oil depot. |
| 5,679,966 |
13.08865 |
12.10564 |
Nigeria |
|
Some 200 members of an Islamic group mobbed a police station in northern Nigeria's Yobe State, killing one police officer; The incident occurred in Kanamma, some 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of the state capital Damaturu. The Mahairun sect, which came to the state from nearby Borno State three months ago, attacked another police station in Geidam where arms and ammunition were also taken away |
| 5,679,970 |
12.897 |
11.9304 |
Nigeria |
|
Some 200 members of an Islamic group mobbed a police station in northern Nigeria's Yobe State, killing one police officer; The incident occurred in Kanamma, some 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of the state capital Damaturu. The Mahairun sect, which came to the state from nearby Borno State three months ago, attacked another police station in Geidam where arms and ammunition were also taken away |
| 5,680,318 |
12.1131 |
12.8274 |
Nigeria |
|
Two people have so far been confirmed dead and 89 arrested in renewed violence at Magumeri local government area of Borno State following last Saturday's elections. |
| 5,679,973 |
12.897 |
11.9304 |
Nigeria |
|
Members of a militant Islamist sect who attacked police stations in Kanama and Geidam have retreated to a primary school in Geidam, to establish a base, raising flags bearing the word "Afghanistan." |
| 5,679,977 |
12.897 |
11.9304 |
Nigeria |
|
Islamic radical group attacks police stations |
| 5,679,981 |
12.897 |
11.9304 |
Nigeria |
|
Islamic radical group attacks police stations |
| 5,679,985 |
11.747 |
11.9608 |
Nigeria |
|
In successive days of violence between an Islamist militia and police forces, fighting surged on New Year's Eve, when Nigeria's government sent riot police reinforcements from outside Yobe state. As some civilians fled, one band of Al Sunna Wal Jamma fighters retreated to Damaturu, where they looted and burned a police station and a local government office. |
| 5,679,989 |
13.08865 |
12.10564 |
Nigeria |
|
Nigeria declared Saturday it had put down an armed uprising by an Islamic movement seeking to create a Muslim state. Two police officers and at least six of the militants died in five days of clashes in three towns in predominantly Islamic Yobe state, including the capital, Damaturu. The battles sent scores of families fleeing the targeted communities of Geidam and Kanamma. |
