Talk:Boko Haram insurgency

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2020 Toumour attacks was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 8 September 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Boko Haram insurgency on 26 February 2024. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Kidnap rescue[edit]

Sometime ago a tvc journo said there was a intel on kidnap attempt, spoiled by a col. Feyi and others. The programme was recent, ca 5 dec. Anything about it? Bokoharamwatch (talk) 16:16, 2 January 2022 (UTC) See here. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 18:27, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just had an exchange about this. It really seems some confuse Chibok with this incident. Oh. dear. oh my. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 23:42, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm considering deleting the draft; it's been declined again now. No point anymore. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 11:42, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

More developments, see here, here. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 12:50, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Early religious conflict in Nigeria[edit]

there's a disagreement about this section. All these things are well referenced in their articles. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 17:25, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2020 Toumour attacks[edit]

The stub article on these attacks can probably be deleted as its entire content is already included on the Timeline page (March attack and December attack). Farolif (talk) 01:31, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]