This archive report was first published on 12 October 2019.
At least seven people have lost their lives in a series of attacks in northeastern Nigeria, with local residents and militias attributing the violence to jihadist fighters.
According to reports, the attacks occurred in the towns of Gajiganna and Tungushe in Borno State, with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group suspected of being behind the violence.
On Friday, gunmen raided a military post in Gajiganna, sparking a gunbattle that left two soldiers and a civilian dead, with one military vehicle taken by the attackers.
Earlier in the day, the jihadists attacked troops in the nearby village of Tungushe, killing a soldier and three residents, according to Babakura Kolo, a member of a militia fighting the jihadists.
These attacks come just a day after two Chadian troops were killed in clashes between jihadists and members of a regional force in northeastern Nigeria.
ISWAP, a faction of Boko Haram that broke away in 2016, has intensified ambushes against troops in the past two months, with the decade-long conflict having already claimed 35,000 lives and displaced around two million people from their homes in northeast Nigeria.
The violence has spread to neighboring Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, prompting the formation of a regional military coalition to fight the insurgents.
