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Boko Haram

Boko Haram (literally, Western or non-Islamic education is a sin, from Boko and Haram) is a Nigerian militant Islamist group that seeks the imposition of Shariah law throughout all 36 states of Nigeria.

Boko Haram

People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad (Arabic: جماعة اهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad), better known by its Hausa name Boko Haram, is a Salafist jihadist terrorist organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria, in the areas predominated by the Kanuri people. Founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2001 the organisation is a Muslim sect that seeks to "abolish the secular system and establish an Islamic state"