Which journalist born in 1986 was among the first international jounalists to visit the town of Chibok after schoolgirls were adbucted by a terrorist group whose name means "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad"?
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Chika Oduah Chika Sandra Oduah (born March 14, 1986) is a Nigerian-American journalist who works as a television news producer, writer, photographer and correspondent. Known for her unique human-focused ethnographic reporting style with an anthropological approach, she was awarded a CNN Multichoice African Journalist Award in 2016. Upon the abduction of 276 schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Chibok, Northeastern Nigeria, she was among the first international journalists to visit the town. Her thorough and exclusive coverage of the event won her the Trust Women "Journalist of The Year Award" from the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2014.
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Boko Haram Boko Haram, referred to by themselves as al-Wilāya al-Islāmiyya Gharb Afrīqiyyah (Arabic: الولاية الإسلامية غرب أفريقيا‎ ‎ , (Islamic State West Africa Province, "ISWAP") and Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد‎ ‎ , "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad"), is an Islamic extremist terrorist group based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon. The group was led by Abubakar Shekau until August 2016, when he was succeeded by Abu Musab al-Barnawi. The group had alleged links to al-Qaeda, but in March 2015, it announced its allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Since the current insurgency started in 2009, it has killed tens of thousands and displaced 2.3 million from their homes and was ranked as the world's deadliest terror group by the Global Terrorism Index in 2015.
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2011 Imbaba church attacks The 2011 Imbaba church attacks were a series of attacks that took place on 7 May 2011 against Coptic Christian churches in the poor working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in Cairo, Egypt. The attacks were blamed on Salafi Muslims, and the attacks began when the Salafis attacked the Coptic Orthodox church of Saint Mina, where they alleged a Christian woman was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam. The attacks resulted in the burning of 3 Coptic Orthodox churches, and the destruction of many Christian-owned houses and businesses. In addition, 15 people were killed in the attacks, and about 232 injured. Among those killed were four Christians and six Muslims, while two other bodies were still unidentified. Imbaba has been known to be a stronghold of Muslim fundamentalists since the 1970s, but also comprises a significant number of Coptic Christians.
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2014 Gamboru Ngala attack On the night of 5-6 May 2014, Boko Haram militants attacked the twin towns of Gamboru and Ngala in Borno State, Nigeria. Roughly 310 residents were killed in the 12-hour attack, and the town was largely destroyed. Most of the survivors fled to neighbouring Cameroon.
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The Underground Girls of Kabul The Underground Girls of Kabul: in Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan is a book that documents the bacha posh of Afghanistan. Bacha posh translates from Dari as "dressed up like a boy." It is a term used in Afghanistan and in this book to describe children who are born as girls but are dressed up, raised and treated as if they were boys.The girls will usually serve as a son for the family until she hits puberty. However, the book also delves deeper into those bacha posh that remain boys even after puberty. It is written by journalist and foreign correspondent Jenny Nordberg and was published on 16 September 2014. It was later released on 30 September in the UK.
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Jamaluddin Mousavi Jamaluddin Mousavi (Mosawi) aka Jamal Mousavi (Persian: جمال الدین موسوی; born in Kabul, Afghanistan) is a BBC Persian TV presenter. He started working for the BBC in 2001 as a journalist when he joined the BBC's Central Asia magazine in Iran and Afghanistan. Before joining the BBC, Jamal was the editor of a weekly publication for Afghan refugees living in Mashhad, the province capital of Iran's Khorasan province where he also managed a UNHCR project to train young Afghan journalists. Jamal comes from Afghanistan although he grew up and studied in Iran.
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Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen ("Assembly of Mujahideen", abbreviated: JMB; Bengali: জামাত-উল-মুজাহিদীন বাংলাদেশ ) is an Islamic terrorist organisation operating in Bangladesh. It was founded in April 1998 in Palampur in Dhaka division by Abdur Rahman and gained public prominence in 2001 when bombs and documents detailing the activities of the organisation were discovered in Parbatipur in Dinajpur district. The organisation was officially banned by the government of Bangladesh in February 2005 after attacks on NGOs, but struck back in mid-August when it detonated 500 bombs at 300 locations throughout Bangladesh. The group re-organised and has committed several public murders in 2016 in northern Bangladesh as part of a wave of attacks on secularists.
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Ubaydullah Hussain Arslan Ubaydullah Maroof Hussain (born 1985) is a Norwegian Islamist, and a central figure and former spokesperson of the salafi-jihadist group Profetens Ummah.
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Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (Arabic: العالمي أنصار الجهاد‎ ‎ , "Anṣār al-Jihād al-‘Alāmī", "helpers of the global jihad") is a jihadist group that came to international attention in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 Norway attacks, when it was reported that the group had claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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Abderrazak Boukebba Abderrazak Boukebba (Arabic: عبد الرزاق بوكبة ) (born 1977) is an Algerian journalist, author and television presenter. He was born in a village called Awlad J'hish in eastern Algeria. He studied literature at university, earning a BA degree in 1996. Initially, he worked as a consultant to the Algerian National Library before moving on to become an editor of television and radio programmes. He has worked for Algeria's national broadcaster ENTV.
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Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik Syed Rizwan Farook (June 14, 1987December 2, 2015) and Tashfeen Malik (July 13, 1986December 2, 2015) were the two perpetrators of a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015. In the attack, they killed 14 civilians and injured 22 others. Both died in a shootout with police later that same day.
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Samina Baig Samina Khayal Baig (Urdu: ‎ ; born 19 September 1990) is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer who in 2013 climbed Mount Everest and then all Seven Summits by 2014. She is the first and only Pakistani woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits. She is also the youngest Muslim woman to climb Mount Everest, having done so at the age of 21.
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Soldiers of Egypt Soldiers of Egypt (Ajnad Misr in Arabic) is an active Salafist Islamist militant group that has been operating near Cairo, Egypt. The groups was founded by Humam Muhammed in 2013, after he split away from the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militant group. The group claims that its attacks are "retribution" for the August 2013 Rabaa Massacre; notably, the group targets only security forces. It has warned civilians of the presence of bombs that it has placed. The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters declared the group a terrorist group on 22 May 2014. It has been a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000 since November 2014. The United States Department of State designated it a terrorist organization on 18 December 2014.
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Bouguerra Soltani Bouguerra Soltani (Arabic: أبو جرة سلطاني‎ ‎ ) (also Abu Jerra Sultani and other spellings) (born in 1954 in Tébessa Province) is the leader of the Algerian party Mouvement de la Societé pour la Paix (Movement of the Society for Peace, abbreviated MSP or Hamas), which is reformist-Islamist and considered close to the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Abdul Mutalib Mohamed Daud Abdul Mutalib Mohd Daud (1961 – 29 June 2013), popularly known as "Mutalib MD", was an ISA detainee, as well as the founder and chief editor of the news portal "Sabahkini.net" in Sabah. At the time of his death, he had completed two as yet unpublished books, one on the banning of Nurul Izzah Anwar from Sabah.
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Sexual jihad Sexual jihad (Arabic: جهاد النكاح‎ ‎ , jihad al-nikah) refers to the purported practice in which Sunni women sympathetic to the Salafi jihadism travel to the battlefields and are voluntarily offering themselves to rebels fighting the Bashar al Assad government in Syria to be "married" repeatedly in a temporary marriage, serving sexual comfort roles to help boost the fighters' morale.
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Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow (1990 – 22 September 2013) was a Norwegian Islamist terrorist and Al-Shabaab-member who was one of four perpetrators of the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya that killed 63 people.
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Rusman Gunawan Rusman Gunawan, also known as "Gun Gun", is an Indonesian jailed for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". He is the younger brother of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) chief of operations, Hambali. Born in the West Java town of Cianjur, he moved to Pakistan to continue his religious studies at an Islamic school ("madrassas"). After graduating, he travelled to Afghanistan to train at the Al Ghuraba training camp.
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Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case The Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case concerns the 2007 arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, and subsequent release of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, who taught middle-class Muslim and Christian children at Unity High School in Khartoum, Sudan. She was convicted of insulting Islam by allowing her class of six-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Muhammad".
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2015 Chad suicide bombings The 2015 Chad suicide bombings were a suicide attack which occurred the afternoon of Saturday 10, October 2015 in the town of Baga Sola, Chad a small fishing community on Lake Chad. The attack is thought to have been perpetrated by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram and resulted in the deaths of around 36 individuals, and wounding upwards of 50 more. The attacks were reportedly carried out by 3 women and 2 children with primary targets being a busy marketplace, as well as a nearby refugee camp hosting upwards of 7149 refugees.
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Kazeboon "Kazeboon" (also spelled "Kazabun"), which means "liars" in Arabic, is a public-awareness and alternative media campaign in Egypt critical of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the current governing power. The Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), has taken over from President Hosni Mubarak a year ago, and was said to transfer power to a civilian administration.
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Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai ("Malālah Yūsafzay": Urdu: ‎ ; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ ] ; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially education of women in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement.