Boko Haram is an extremist terrorist organization, operating mainly in Nigeria belonging to the Hausa tribe.

Name of the organization: Boko-Haram
Belonging Ideology: Jihad, Extremist Radical Islam, Selfies, Sacrifices, ISIS Ideology
Place of Origin: Maiduguri, Nigeria
Founded in: 2020
Founder: Mohammed Yusuf
Place of activity: Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger

Overview of the organization

Boko-Haram is an ISIS jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The organization promotes the self-jihadist brand of Islam that seeks to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state, in Nigeria. To achieve this goal, the group carried out large-scale terrorist attacks inside Nigeria, including an attack on the UN headquarters in Abuja in 2011, the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in April 2014, and the massacre in the northern town of Baga in January 2015. In November 2018, Boko-Haram attacked a military base in the state of Borno - looting weapons, equipment and vehicles, leaving more than a hundred soldiers dead.Since 2009, Boko-Haram claimed the lives of some 30,000 people, displacing more than two million , According to the UN report in January 2019.