Baga (Nigeria)

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Huts in Baga (1977)
Kanuri in Baga (1977)

Baga is a city in the Nigerian state of Borno . The city, located on Lake Chad , had around 10,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 2015. About 196 kilometers from the state capital, Maiduguri , the city is part of the Kukawa Local Government Area . The historic city of Kukawa is about four kilometers southwest of Baga.

history

Baga was once a fishing village, located on a headland on Lake Chad, whose fish market was regionally famous. As the water level continued to sink, the area around Baga silted up.

Islamist Terrorism and Destruction 2015

The city was hit by an attack by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in April 2013 , in which at least 185 people died and over 2000 buildings were destroyed. As a result of the attack, around 2,000 residents fled to the border town of Bosso in neighboring Niger . On January 3, 2015, there was another attack on Baga, in which the soldiers stationed there to protect the city fled. It was the fifth attack in two years. On January 7th, the city was burned down in a massacre , according to the BBC, up to 2000 dead are assumed. A government spokesman denied this, and Reuters reported at least 100 deaths. Musa Alhaji Bukar, a senior government official, said the city was "virtually non-existent".

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC : Lake Chad fishermen pack up their nets January 15, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ Die Welt : Boko Haram burns down city in Nigeria January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Yusha'u A Ibrahim: How Borno refugees survive in Bosso. (No longer available online.) In: Weekly Trust. June 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; accessed on February 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailytrust.com.ng
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Boko Haram captured military base on January 4, 2015. Accessed on January 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria's Baga town hit by new assault of January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Spiegel Online : Tyranny in Nigeria: Boko Haram burns down town January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2015.

Coordinates: 13 ° 7 '  N , 13 ° 51'  E