| 5,686,888 |
6.91543 |
7.51941 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen in Nigeria on Monday kidnapped two Indonesians and also shot and injured two other people in a village in southern Akwa Ibom State. MEND later claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| 5,715,810 |
8.37511 |
-11.05818 |
Sierra Leone |
|
looting/presense |
| 5,686,892 |
5.03333 |
7.92657 |
Nigeria |
|
An oil rig was attacked off Nigeria and five ex-patriate crew members are believed to have been taken hostage (French, American, Canadian). Two crew members are stable after receiving wounds to the leg, and have been evacuated by helicopter to a shore-based clinic. The Okoro field is located some 12 kilometres (eight miles) off the coast off Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state. MEND later claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| 5,686,897 |
5.07627 |
6.26406 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen armed with explosives have attacked the home of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's top adviser in Bayelsa State. The gunmen attacked with dynamite and guns. No casualties reported. |
| 5,686,901 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Two motorcycle-riding gunmen suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram sect shot dead an off-duty soldier who was recovering from an undisclosed illness, and also shot and wounded his friend in Zinnari district of Maiduguri in the early hours of Saturday morning. |
| 5,686,905 |
4.77742 |
7.0134 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen burst into a burial vigil outside Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, firing shots and kidnapping four people. The gunmen shot sporadically and made away with four men. |
| 5,686,909 |
4.56868 |
7.97859 |
Nigeria |
|
Gunmen attacked an offshore facility operated by US oil giant Exxon Mobil off the coast of southern Nigeria. Eight Nigerian workers were kidnapped. MEND later claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| 5,686,913 |
5.03333 |
7.92657 |
Nigeria |
|
The Nigerian military carried out an offensive on rebel groups based in the Niger Delta, freeing 19 hostages abducted in the previous weeks. |
| 5,686,918 |
5.3223 |
5.74165 |
Nigeria |
|
MEND issued a claim that it had ambushed the convoy of Nigerian Army gunboats at Ayakoromo, Delta State, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 18 others. |
| 5,686,923 |
11.84644 |
13.16027 |
Nigeria |
|
Suspected Boko Haram members opened fire on worshippers at a Wahabi mosque in Maiduguri shortly before Friday prayers, killing three, including a young boy. The Boko Haram sect considers Saudi-inclined Wahabi Muslims to be heretics for their vehement opposition to Boko Haram's ideology of violence and its aversion to Western education. |
