Late 2000's: BOKO HARAM

Boko Haram (translation: western education is sinful) is a Sunni Islamist Radical Terrorist group founded in 2002; by 2011 they had progressed to a militia utilizing suicide bombers, rape, torture.
In 2012, Nigeria established a state of emergency to cover the northeast sector of Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa; the country is based on petroleum-based economy, where revenues are filtered through the country guided by corruption.
70% of Nigeria’s population is below the poverty line, yet they are a petroleum, gas, iron, cocoa based economy who export over 50% to India, USA, Brazil, Spain and the Netherlands. Nigeria imports from primarily China, USA and India.

Death and Injury

The reign of terror that Boko Haram began in Nigeria has killed over 20,000 people in six years and driven over 2.3 million from their homes.
By 2013, almost 3 million Nigerians had been displaced and almost 250,000 had fled to neighboring countries to refugee camps barely able to provide the necessities of water, food, clothing and shelter. Boko Haram has crossed borders to attack fleeing refugees primarily in Chad.
In 2014, Boko Haram killed almost 7000 people. Thousands have been abducted and tortured, killed, and forced into Boko Haram’s regime as children soldiers and suicide bombers.

Psychological Impact

Boko Haram has not only affected the victims of their terrorist acts, but it has drastically affected the survivors and other Nigerians who have only learned of the acts of terrorism in their homeland.
Samuel Jinadu, a clinical psychologist at the Centre for Psychological Medicine, Synape Services has commented on the far-reaching effects of violence noting, anxiety and insomnia are symptoms of post-traumatic stress, other mental problems may emerge later.
Jinadu also noted a rise in suicides as a result of depression when “victims feel helpless and hopeless, without a reason to continue life."
Jinadu also discusses the psychological affects on the culture as people become suspicious of each other, and mass fear can result in anxiety, paranoia and depression.
In 2012, the President of Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Idris Omede addressed that after an event of terrorism there is often a sharp rise of psychological disorders in the weeks and months ahead, and that permanent disabilities are not limited to the physically maimed or injured.

it should be noted along with murderous raids in the name of Islam the goal of Boko Haram is to wipe western influence from Nigeria; Boko Haram has profited millions of dollars in robberies, trafficking women, ransoms from kidnapping and hijacking natural resources and international workers.
Boko Haram raises money through drug trafficking, human trafficking, robbery and financing from donors tracing to Saudi Arabia, UK, ISIS and Al-Qaeda. While not a household name, it is a heinous Islamic Extremist group as effective as Al-Qaeda and ISIS, killing and kidnapping more people than both of these groups individually over the last ten years.
On April 14, 2014, 276 schoolgirls from Chibok were kidnapped. Boko Haram stated the girls would be raped, and married to soldiers, with the majority sold into trafficking. Two thousand women and girls have been kidnapped.
In September 2015, Nigeria stated Boko Haram was weak and could no longer be considered a threat to Nigeria. Continued attacks on villages and military bases throughout northeast Nigeria and Chad continued via suicide bombers and soldiers.
On January 30, 2016, Boko Haram invaded a village in North-Eastern NIgeria with three female suicide bombers and soldiers, killing 86 and burning the children alive.
Boko Haram has not ended its terror in Nigeria.