Maiduguri
| Maiduguri | |||
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 50 ' N , 13 ° 9' E | ||
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| Country | Nigeria | ||
| Borno | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | NG-BO | ||
| height | 320 m | ||
| Residents | 1,197,497 (2007) | ||
Maiduguri is a city in Nigeria . It is the capital of the state of Borno . On January 1, 2007, it had 1,197,497 inhabitants. The Society for Threatened Peoples estimated early 2015 the number of people living there to 3 million because within 8 months, 1.5 million people from the attacks of Boko Haram fled from other places of the state of Borno in the city.
geography
Maiduguri is located in the northeast of the country at the confluence of the Ngadda and Goyo Kyauwo rivers . This is also the intersection of the road from Damasak to Bama and the A3 from Port Harcourt via Damaturu to Gambaru on the border with Chad. This road is 239 km to N'Djamena . The A4 coming from Calabar on the Bay of Bonny ends here. A railway line leads via Gombe to Port Harcourt.
languages
Hausa is the lingua franca of northern Nigeria. In addition, English is spoken, especially in the university sector, and in and around Maiduguri Kanuri and Arabic as idioms of indigenous societies.
history
Foundation of the city
Maiduguri is still relatively young. The city was only founded as a British military and administrative base in the early 20th century. As the political center of the British share in the Bornu Sultanate , it replaced the historical centers of Kukawa and Dikwa and became the seat of the Sultan. In July 1951, the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) founded the first Islamiyya school in Maiduguri . Islamiyya schools are schools that provide both Islamic and Western education. Maiduguri is the seat of a Catholic diocese.
Attacks by Islamic fundamentalists
In the recent past there have been repeated tensions between Christians and Muslims , with the latter forming the majority in the city and in the north of the country. In February 2006, for example, there were violent protests and riots against the Christian minority due to Danish cartoons of Mohammed . Churches and shops were destroyed and Christians were killed.
In July 2009, attacks by Islamic fundamentalists on public buildings left several hundred dead and thousands of people fled. The headquarters of the Islamic sect Boko Haram is located in Maiduguri .
On June 26, 2011, members of the Boko Haram attacked three beer bars with firearms and explosive devices, killing at least 25 people.
On November 4, 2011, four suicide bombers from Boko Haram blew themselves up in Maiduguri. Among their targets was a military base in the city. About four hours later, fighters of the sect attacked targets in the neighboring city of Damaturu .
On February 20, 2012, members of the Boko Haram carried out a bomb attack on a fish market, killing 30 people.
On April 29, 2012, five people were killed, including the pastor, in an attack on a church.
On October 9, 2012, according to press reports from AP , Reuters and AFP , a massacre broke out after a bomb attack on a military patrol : 30 people died and 50 buildings were set on fire when soldiers retaliated against local residents. The army denied that civilians had been killed.
On October 15, Boko Haram bombed the military in several locations in Maiduguri . According to the military, 24 of the attackers were killed and 4 arrested, and only one soldier was injured, while no civilians were injured. Local residents reported that gunmen attacked a market in the afternoon, and a traffic policeman was said to have been shot dead by an armed man near a military roadblock. The first of up to 15 explosions occurred around 6:00 p.m. local time, a primary school and a radio tower are said to have been set on fire, there were reports of dead civilians and soldiers, which the military denied. After the attacks began, which continued into the night, the military cordoned off most streets in the city center.
In May 2013, fighting broke out again in Maiduguri and neighboring cities when the Nigerian army imposed curfews on entire districts and violently attacked Boko Haram.
On January 25, 2015, the city was attacked by Boko Haram, which was repulsed by the Nigerian military. A second attack followed a week later on February 1, 2015, with the Nigerian army receiving support from armed residents in the fight against Boko Haram, according to eyewitness reports. On September 21, at least 55 people died and 90 others were injured in a series of attacks in Maiduguri when three bombs detonated.
Economy and Transport
economy
The city is considered rich by Nigerian standards. There are villas with private mosques . The smuggling of oil blooms.
traffic
The Jos railway line has ended in Maiduguri since 1964 . In addition, the largest airport in Borno is located here , which is served from Abuja and Lagos , among others .
Two major national roads intersect in Maiduguri :
- the A3 , from the direction of Bauchi to the Cameroonian border at Gambaru and shortly afterwards to N'Djamena in Chad, part of the Transafrican Highway No. 5, the Dakar-N'Djamena Highway , and
- the A4 , coming from Numan to the Cameroonian border at Limani .
Web links
- Johannes Dieterich: Killer without a face. Nigeria. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . Retrieved March 14, 2012 (Report on Maiduguri Violence).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Civilian population in northern Nigeria must be better protected - a city of 3 million is threatened by catastrophe. (No longer available online.) Society for Threatened Peoples, February 1, 2015, archived from the original on February 14, 2015 ; accessed on February 14, 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.
- ↑ See Jonathan T. Reynolds: The Time of Politics (Zamanin Siyasa). Islam and the Politics of Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria 1950-1966. San Francisco et al. a. 1999. pp. 142-154
- ↑ http://missio-blog.de/blog/2014/03/13/boko-haram-verursacht-humanitaere-krise-in-nord-nigeria/
- ↑ Hundreds of victims in fighting with Islamists in Nigeria
- ↑ Around 30 dead in an attack on beer bars in Nigeria. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 27, 2011, accessed June 27, 2011 .
- ↑ 30 dead in attack in Nigeria. In: ORF . June 2, 2011, accessed June 27, 2011 .
- ↑ At least 150 people killed in attacks in northern Nigeria. November 5, 2011, accessed November 7, 2011 .
- ^ Boko Haram attack . In: The time .
- ↑ Bloody attacks on church and university . In: Krone.at , April 30, 2012.
- ↑ Nigeria army 'opens fire on civilians' in Maiduguri. In: BBC News . October 9, 2012, accessed October 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Nigeria's Maiduguri shaken by 'Boko Haram' blasts. In: BBC News . October 16, 2012, accessed October 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Thomas Scheen: Army seals off the stronghold of Boko Haram Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 20, 2013
- ↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2262557/ Boko Haram fighters attack megacity in Nigeria, ORF.at January 25, 2015
- ↑ Heavy fighting in Nigeria Boko Haram attacks Maiduguri. tagesschau.de, January 25, 2014, archived from the original on February 1, 2015 ; Retrieved January 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Bomb attacks claim 54 lives. September 21, 2015, accessed September 21, 2015 .
