Boko Haram

Boko Haram, referred to by themselves as Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiyyah (, (Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP), and Jama'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihad (, "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad"), is an Islamic extremist group based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon. The group's leader is Abubakar Shekau. The group had alleged links to al-Qaeda, but in March 2015, it announced its allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Since the current insurgency started in 2009, it has killed 20,000 and displaced 2.3 million from their homes.