“Human rights organizations estimate some 3,000 Nigerians have been killed in violence related to militant Islamist group Boko Haram over the past three years. Numerous negotiation attempts have stalled due to distrust on both sides, and the factionalized leadership of the group’s different cells. Below is a chronology of violence relating to Boko Haram and the government’s police and military crackdown since January 2012. See here for an earlier IRIN timeline covering 2002 to January 2012.”

Source: IRIN Africa | Timeline of Boko Haram and related violence in Nigeria | Nigeria | Conflict | Economy | Governance | Security | Urban Risk