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Africa Subsaharan

Jihadists kill 63 in attack on Nigerian town

2025-09-08

[NBCRIGHTNOW] Jihadists killed at least 63 people in northeastern Nigeria while storming a town whose residents had been returned from a displacement camp, the state governor said.

The Friday night assault struck the town of Darul Jamal, which hosts a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
border in a zone ravaged by jihadist attacks.

Babagana Zulum, governor of the embattled Borno state, said that five soldiers were among the dead, a figure confirmed to AFP by a security source.

The latest attack raises questions about Nigeria's push in recent years to close down camps for internally displaced persons and return their inhabitants to the countryside.

"It's very sad, this community was resettled some months ago and they went about their normal business," Zulum told journalists at the scene of the attack.

"As of now, we confirm that 63 have bit the dust, both the civilians and the army."

While jihadist violence has waned since the peak of the Boko Haram

... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
insurgency, from 2013-2015, holy warriors including rival Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West African Province (ISWAP) continue to launch attacks across rural areas in the northeast.

"The numerical strength of the Nigerian army is not enough to contain the situation," Zulum said, adding that a newly established force called the Forest Guards was set to augment security personnel in the region.

Residents said the attack began around 8:30 pm (1930 GMT), when dozens of fighters arrived on cycle of violence

s, firing assault rifles and torching homes.

"They came shouting, shooting everyone in sight," Malam Bukar, who fled into the countryside with his wife and three children, told AFP. "When we returned at dawn, bodies were everywhere."

- Air force says it killed 'terrorists' -

Earlier, civilian militia commander Babagana Ibrahim said at least 55 people were killed, while an NGO worker, who asked not to be named, gave AFP a toll of 64.

Neither the army nor the air force responded to an AFP request for comment.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
in a statement picked up by local media, the air force said it killed 30 "terrorists" who had engaged in a gun fight with ground troops in the town, also known as Dar-El-Jamal.

Many of the victims were families recently relocated from the Government Secondary School displacement camp in Bama, which authorities shut down earlier this year.

"The government told us we would be safe here," said Hajja Fati, a mother of five who lost her brother in the attack. "Now we are burying our people again."

The area is known to be under the control of a Boko Haram commander, Ali Ngulde. A security source told AFP he led the attack.

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