Nigerian Army takes back the town of Baga from Boko Haram.

#BokoHaram #LakeChad #terrorists #Nigeria #Baga Boko Haram militants had taken over the city of Baga on 3 January 2015 and it was reported officially that 150 people had died during the attack on Baga and nearby Doron Baga but locals put the toll at around 2,000.
Anyway, the Nigerian army has now retaken the north-eastern town of Baga and that mopping up operations had been started as reported in bbc.com dated 21 February 2015.
The Army has also claimed that it had killed many Boko Haram militants – there is no independent verification of this. As per the version of the Army, the militants had fled and some of them drowned in Lake Chad when they tried to escape the aerial bombardment. Moreover, the militants had laid nearly 1000 mines in Baga which had to be negotiated by the soldiers before entering.
Boko Haram now controls much of Nigeria's north-east and it has killed thousands of people indiscriminately in its drive to establish an Islamic state. More recently, it has conducted cross-border raids in neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger by attacking villages and military bases. All these three countries have joined forces with Nigeria to create a military coalition against the Islamist militants.

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Nigerian forces kill leader of Boko Haram along with 200 soldiers

It was a major victory for Nigerian forces when they succeeded in killing a dreaded commander of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram along with 200 other militants of the group theguardian.com.
As indicated by a Nigerian army officer, the feared commander known only as Amir was among the dead after a battle on Friday in Konduga town located some 35-Km from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and birthplace of the extremist group.
A Boko Haram video journalist and a suicide bomber were also killed but there were no military casualties, according to the officer and a civilian self-defense group that fights alongside the soldiers.
Boko Haram had captured a string of towns in recent weeks stretching over 320-Km alongside Nigeria’s north-east border with Cameroon in a new campaign to create an Islamic caliphate – it was trying to mimic the ISIS group in Syria and Iraq. Moreover, the Boko Haram extremists have also attacked a town and villages across the border in Cameroon, but the Cameroonian troops beat them off and forced them back across the border into Nigeria.
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