Table 1 Timeline of selected Boko Haram activities
July 2009 | Boko Haram uprising; 1000 soldiers killed |
August 2011 | Abuja Police HQ bombing; 23 killed |
January 2012 | New Boko Haram leader, Abu Usamtul Al-Ansari |
November 2013 | U.S. adds Boko Haram to its list of foreign terrorist organizations |
April 2014 | Boko Haram abducts 276 teenage schoolgirls in Chibok |
March 2015 | Boko Haram announces expansion and allegiance to ISIS |
October 2016 | Boko Haram hands over 21 Chibok schoolgirls to authorities |
March 2018 | 7 UN aid workers killed, 4 abducted in Kala Balge and Rann, Borno State |
April 2018 | UNICEF reports Boko Haram has kidnapped > 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria |
February 2019 | Boko Haram attacks Shuwa, kills 3, loots and burns houses |