Boko Haram raped, beat us – Abducted girls

He soon began to threaten me with a knife to have sex with him
and when I refused, he brought out his gun, warning that he would
kill me if I shouted.

“Then he began to rape me every night … I had never had sex
before; it was very painful and I cried bitterly because I was
bleeding afterwards.”

These were the words of a 15-year-old girl, who was abducted by
Boko Haram and forcibly married to one of its commanders in a
camp in the Sambisa Forest, Borno State.

The girl, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, was
abducted in 2013 but she escaped after four weeks in captivity.
The teenager is one of the five girls that personally recounted their
ordeals in the publication which was made public on Monday. She
said that after her marriage to the commander who was in his
early 30s, she was ordered to live with him in cave.

The experiences of three others who suffered sexual violence
were narrated by witnesses in the 63-page HRW report titled,
Those Terrible Weeks in Their Camp: Boko Haram Violence against
Women and Girls in North-East Nigeria.’

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Boko Haram kills four Nigerian refugees in Cameroon

Four Nigerians taking refuge in a village in the far north of
Cameroon have been killed by members of Boko Haram in an
attack that took place on Friday October 24th.

According to a statement made available today to AFP, the
Cameroonian Ministry of Defence said the sect members attacked
“the village of Glawi, killing four Nigerian refugees and wounding
one Camerounian, before being pushed back by defence forces
which pursued them”.

The ministry also said two groups of Boko Haram members had
also tried to enter another border village with Nigeria but they were
“immediately intercepted and neutralised by our defence forces
who destroyed three 4×4 vehicles equipped with machine guns,
killing 27 assailants,”.

39 members of the sect were confirmed dead after the various
attack.

CHIBOK GIRLS: FG, Boko Haram, to meet in Chad again

The Federal Government and the Boko Haram Islamic sect will on
Monday meet in Chad to further discuss the release of the over
200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014.

This came a week after a botched ceasefire agreement reached by
the Federal government and the sect.

The peace talk between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram
sect, which is being mediated by the Chadian government, had
been called into question since it was announced by the military
last week following the refusal of both parties to respect the
ceasefire deal.

Boko Haram has yet to comment on the ceasefire and its fighters
have continued to attack villages in the North-East.

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Bomb blast kills five, injures several others in a bus station in Bauchi

There was a bomb explosion at a bus station in Azare town in
Bauchi state late last night, which killed at least five people and
wounded at least 10 people. It was a suicide bomber, suspected to
be a member of Boko Haram.

There’s a very gory pic of the suicide bomber’s remains…who
wants to see it?

No date yet for Chibok girls’ release – Presidency

The Presidency has distanced itself from reports that it fixed a
date in conjunction with Boko Haram for the release of the
abducted Chibok girls.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr.
Doyin Okupe, stated that the reports were “mischievous rumours”
aimed at discrediting the government.

According to Okupe, the Federal Government chose neither October
20 nor any other date with the Islamist sect, in the widely
publicised ceasefire deal.

“Nobody said the (Chibok) girls would be released on Monday
(October 20). It was a mischievous rumour to set government up,”
Okupe wrote on Twitter while fending off criticisms of the Federal
Government on the botched ceasefire deal.

The presidential aide, however, expressed optimism that the
collapsed deal would sail through but maintained silence on the
fate of the Chibok girls.

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Boko Haram abduct 60 women in Adamawa

Sixty women were reportedly abducted by suspected members of
the deadly Boko Haram sect at Waga Mangoro and Garta villages,
both in troubled Adamawa State during a fresh attack.

Forty of the women were said to have been abducted in Waga
Mangoro and the other 20 were forcefully taken away from Grata.

Some of the fleeing residents from the area, who called journalists
in Yola on the telephone lamented that scores of insurgents riding
motorcycles and driving vans had invaded their towns.

The fleeing residents while lamenting the capture of the two towns,
said they were able to sneak out of the captured towns on
Tuesday, but disclosed that their villages were ravaged on
Saturday.
One of those that was about to flee the area, Tizhe Kwada told
journalists that the area had been under the control of the
insurgents for about two months now.

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Military kills 25 Boko haram members in Damboa

No fewer than 25 members of Boko Haram were killed yesterday
October 19th by troops of the 7th division of the Nigerian army
after the sect members launched a fresh attack at Damboa LGA in
Borno state. Damboa is the same town the sect captured in June
but was recovered by the Military in August.

Residents of the area said terrorists arrived around 5pm yesterday
in seven Hilux buses and many motorcycles, and immediately
started shooting at villagers. Fortunately, the military stationed in
the area returned fire an killed many of the sect members…
A resident of the town told Vanguard;

“The terrorist numbering over 100 in 7 Hilux pickup vans and
motocycles fully armed with Rocket Propelled Launchers,
Improvised Explosive Devices(IED), AK47 rifles, stormed the
town on Sunday night. They realized that the town had
started picking up live following the returning of many fleeing
residents after military took over from the terrorist who
captured the town in June this year but we are happy that
they are confronted.”

Despite ceasefire, Boko Haram attack a village, kill 9

Despite the ceasefire agreement reached between Boko Haram
men and the Nigerian government on Friday October 17th,
members of sect same evening and in the early hours of Saturday
October 18th launched fresh attacks on Abadam and Dzur villages
in Borno state killing at least 9 people including the father of the
former Borno state House of Assembly, Goni Ali-Modu.

According to reports, the people killed in the fresh attacks were
residents of the villages who were jubilating over the announced
ceasefire agreement.

“The people (killed) were celebrating the ceasefire before
Boko Haram came to attack them. There isn’t much details
but I think you can contact the authorities for details.”

Meanwhile there are reports that the sect is in the process of
selecting a new leader after the death of the Abubakr Shekau
impostor in Konduga. According to a member of the states civilian
JTF who spoke with Tribune, he said the sect is not really ready for
a ceasefire and that the people who are posing as leaders of the
sect holding meetings with the federal government are mere
politicians who are out to deceive the government.

“The sect is only trying to buy more time to enable them to
regroup and announce Mamman Nur as their leader. Should
that happen, we are far away from any peace deal as his
name rings a bell in terrorism circles in Borno to Sudan and
other places across Africa” he said.

Nigerian govt reaches ceasefire with Boko Haram

According to a breaking news report on Channels TV, the Nigerian
government has reached a ceasefire agreement with Boko Hraram
following today’s meeting between government officials led by
President Jonathan’s principal private secretary, Amb. Tukur,
Chadian government and reps of the sect group led by Danaldi
Ahmadu.

To this end, the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, has directed all
service chiefs to comply with the ceasefire agreement between
Nigeria and Boko Haram in all areas of operations. Securing the
release of the 219 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram was a
major part of their discussions.