According to a Boko Haram vigilante, Abbas Gava, the women escaped from their captors on Friday after the militants had left their camp to attack a police station and military barracks in the town of Damboa. A high-level source in Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno, said around half of the women who escaped had already returned to their homes, no doubt to the delight of their families. The other half supposedly remained in custody by soldiers in the town of Gulak.
These attacks are not the firsts that happened in the African countries. Four years ago, around 78 people were left dead in several attacks on bars located in Ugandan capital Kampala, Bloomberg said.
The Guardian said that the blast would be the latest in a series of attacks at football viewing centers in the country that had been blamed on the militants, who have since been waging a deadly insurgency in the northern area of Nigeria since 2009.
The Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram has been blamed for attacking an agricultural college in the middle of the night, gunning down close 50 students as they slept in their dormitories, the school's provost said, as reported by The Associated Press. The group later torched their classrooms.
A French family of seven - including four children- was kidnapped on Tuesday in northern Cameroon, and officials suggest the involvement of one of Nigeria's Islamic terrorist sects, Boko Haram.
