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On March 31st this year, there was a suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria in which 20 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were murdered in Mafa, Borno State.
According to reports, the victims were IDPs who had gone into a nearby bush to simply search for firewood. The attackers slit the throats of some victims or shot them at close range. At least 30 others (including children) were abducted in the incident. The victims were described as people who had already been repeatedly displaced by Boko Haram violence.
Boko Haram and its splinter groups (like ISWAP) have carried out multiple attacks in 2025–2026 with varying death tolls, including some involving around 20 deaths (e.g., earlier incidents targeting soldiers or civilians), but the March 31st, Mafa event aligns most closely with the details you mentioned. Violence in the region remains persistent, with civilians often caught in the crossfire or directly targeted.
The armed assaults form part of a surge by Boko Haram and its Islamic State splinter group ISWAP, who have stepped up their deadly attacks on military bases and villages in Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeast.
The gunmen raided the villages of Pubagu and Mayo-Ladde in the states of Borno and neighbouring Adamawa respectively on Tuesday afternoon, after overwhelming local vigilantes, said Mada Saidu, chairman of Askira-Uba district, where one of the attacks occurred.
At least 11 people were killed in Pubagu and nine in Mayo-Ladde. Homes and shops were torched and food supplies looted, Saidu said.
Islamist terrorists have waged a 17-year insurgency seeking to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, killing thousands and displacing at least two million people, aid groups say, despite major military campaigns to root them out.
One is left, as so often in these grim chronicles of African jihadism, with the weary sense that the same story repeats itself with only the names of the villages and the precise number of the dead changing. The Nigerian state, for all its declarations of resolve, appears chronically unable to impose order on a region long surrendered to the logic of holy war.
The gunmen raided the villages of Pubagu and Mayo-Ladde in the states of Borno and neighbouring Adamawa respectively on Tuesday afternoon, after overwhelming local vigilantes, said Mada Saidu, chairman of Askira-Uba district, where one of the attacks occurred.
At least 11 people were killed in Pubagu and nine in Mayo-Ladde. Homes and shops were torched and food supplies looted, Saidu said.
Islamist terrorists have waged a 17-year insurgency seeking to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, killing thousands and displacing at least two million people, aid groups say, despite major military campaigns to root them out.
One is left, as so often in these grim chronicles of African jihadism, with the weary sense that the same story repeats itself with only the names of the villages and the precise number of the dead changing. The Nigerian state, for all its declarations of resolve, appears chronically unable to impose order on a region long surrendered to the logic of holy war.
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