Boko Haram Daily News Updates - March 2015

Previous Updates: February 2014

March 30, 2015

• UPDATE (03-31-15): Nigerian troops 'free' women held by Boko Haram in Gwoza
• UPDATE (03-30-15): Congo's Leader Says Boko Haram Fight Needs Foreign Armies

March 28, 2015

• UPDATE (03-30-15): Nigerian army said to recapture Boko Haram HQ in Gwoza
  
• UPDATE (03-30-15): Officials: Boko Haram beheads 23 in Borno state village raid
  
• UPDATE (03-30-15): Boko Haram Kills 41, Frightens Hundreds from Voting in Nigerian Election - But Far More Refused to Be Intimidated
• UPDATE (03-30-15): 23 'beheaded' in NE Nigeria on eve of election: lawmaker, nurse
• UPDATE (03-30-15): Boko Haram 'beheads with chainsaws' 40 people to derail Nigeria elections

March 27, 2015

• UPDATE (03-30-15): Nigerian Army takes Boko Haram Capital and Boosts Goodluck Jonathan's Election Chances
• UPDATE (03-30-15): Boko Haram HQ Gwoza in Nigerian 'retaken'
• UPDATE (03-30-15): The Islamic State, Boko Haram and the evolution of international jihad

March 25, 2015

• UPDATE (03-26-15): Boko Haram Abducting Hundreds as Human Shields
• Militants that terrorised Nigeria before Boko Haram resurface for the election
• Boko Haram detains many women in Nigeria's Gwoza
• 'About 500' Nigeria children missing

March 23, 2015

• Army thwarts Boko Haram attempts to reclaim Baga

March 22, 2015

• Why is Nigeria Turning to South African Mercenaries?

March 21, 2015

• UPDATE (03-22-15): At least 70 bodies found in Nigerian town

March 19, 2015

• UPDATE (03-22-15): Boko Haram takes hit in northern Nigeria

March 17, 2015

• UPDATE (03-18-15): 'Effects of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria Will Last for Years'
• Pope Francis sends letter to the Bishops of Nigeria
• Archbishop Kaigama: Boko Haram 'more sophisticated and more violent'

March 16, 2015

• Borno to reconstruct destroyed houses for 200,000 refugees
• Rare access to former Boko Haram-held towns in Nigeria
• Boko Haram burns Nigerian town as troops advance: residents

March 15, 2015

• UPDATE (03-16-15): Army in Final Push against Boko Haram in Gwoza, Sambisa, Goneri
• UPDATE (03-16-15): ISIS shows support, claims Nigerian terrorists have recapture Gamboru

March 14, 2015

• UPDATE (03-16-15): Boko Haram's Renewed Guerrilla Warfare that Shook Maiduguri
• UPDATE (03-16-15): S. Africa apartheid-era mercenaries help Nigeria fight Boko Haram: Some things don't change
• Boko Haram bomb factory uncovered in troubled northeast

March 13, 2015

• UPDATE (03-14-15): South Africa concern at Nigeria 'mercenaries'
• Nigerian Army Liberates Bauchi Forest from Boko Haram
• Islamic State Accepts Allegiance of Boko Haram
• 'Hundreds' of Foreign Mercenaries Fighting Boko Haram
• ISIS accepts allegiance of Nigeria jihadists Boko Haram
• Mercenaries Join Nigeria's Military Campaign Against Boko Haram
• ISIL and Boko Haram just allied - what's next for Nigeria?

March 12, 2015

• UPDATE (04-04-15): Dozens of churches burned in Niger by Muslim group
• UPDATE (03-13-15): Nigeria hires mercenaries to fight Boko Haram in election push
• UPDATE (03-13-15): Will Al-Shabaab Follow Boko Haram and Pledge Loyalty to ISIS?
• UPDATE (03-13-15): Nigerian troops dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from Bauchi forest
• UPDATE (03-13-15): IS accepts allegiance of Nigeria jihadists Boko Haram: tape
• UPDATE (03-13-15): ISIL 'accepts Boko Haram's pledge of allegiance'

March 11, 2015

• UPDATE (03-13-15): Nigeria's President: Boko Haram trained with Islamic State
• UPDATE (03-12-15): US effort against ISIS could expand to include Boko Haram in Nigeria
• UPDATE (03-12-15): Nigerian Troops Dislodge Boko Haram Militants from Lame/Burra Forest in Bauchi
• Deadly suicide bombing strikes Nigeria's Maiduguri

March 10, 2015

• Boko Haram-ISIS pledge is 'act of desperation': Nigerian govt
• Foreign troops retake Nigerian towns from Boko Haram
• Boko Haram gains new power by aligning with ISIS, experts say

March 9, 2015

• UPDATE (03-10-15): Boko Haram Under Attack by 4 Armies Led by Nigeria
• Every Voice Counts: Don't forget Nigeria's kidnapped girls
• Troops from Chad, Niger cross into Nigeria to battle Boko Haram
• Chad and Niger troops move to attack Boko Haram
• About 10 Chadians killed in advance on Boko Haram in Nigeria: officer

March 8, 2015

• UPDATE (03-09-15): Nigeria allies launch offensive
• UPDATE (03-09-15): Boko Haram's ISIS pledge raises the stakes
• One Million Refugees in Cameroon, Others
• Nigerian Army Recaptures Buni Yadi in Yobe
• Troops Recapture Two More Borno LGS From Boko Haram
• Nigeria's Boko Haram 'pledges allegiance to ISIL'

March 7, 2015

• UPDATE (03-08-15): Islamist Suicide Bombings Kill 54 in Nigeria
• UPDATE (03-08-15): ISIS has a new, dangerous recruit: Boko Haram
• UPDATE (03-08-15): Nigerian troops recapture Buni Yadi, Buni Gari, from Boko Haram terrorists
• Boko Haram 'joins Islamic State'
• Boko Haram suicide bombers target Maiduguri, 54 killed by 5 blasts in northeastern Nigeria
• Suspect Boko Haram Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 in Blast at Market in Maiduguri, Nigeria
• Military retake Marte LG in Borno

March 5, 2015

• UPDATE (03-06-15): Bishops of Nigeria and Cameroon Together Assist Refugees Fleeing Boko Haram
• UPDATE (03-06-15): Boko Haram gunmen kill 68 in Nigeria: Attackers burn down entire village
• UPDATE (03-06-15): Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 68 in Nigerian village

March 4, 2015

• UPDATE (03-05-15): Boko Haram violence goes on, crisis for Nigerian refugee

March 3, 2015

• Nigeria's Boko Haram releases beheading video echoing Islamic State
• Nigerian bishops denounce Boko Haram's use of children as suicide bombers

March 2, 2015

• UPDATE (03-03-15): Boko Haram beheading video shows ties to ISIS, experts say
• UPDATE (03-03-15): Terror Group Boko Haram Posts Video Purporting to Show Beheadings of Two Men
• UPDATE (03-03-15): Nigerian troops gun down 73 Boko Haram terrorists in fresh attack on Konduga

March 1, 2015

• Crowd kills girl suspected to be suicide bomber in Nigeria
• Nigeria: Military Pounds More Boko Haram Targets