{"id":32776,"date":"2026-04-23T07:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32776"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:14:06","slug":"suspected-boko-haram-militants-kill-20-in-northeast-nigeria-attacks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/suspected-boko-haram-militants-kill-20-in-northeast-nigeria-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 20 in northeast Nigeria attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected Boko Haram militants riding motorbikes stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 20 people, a local official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The assaults are part of a surge by Boko Haram and its Islamic State splinter ISWAP, who have stepped up deadly attacks on military bases and villages in Nigeria&#8217;s insurgency-hit northeast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen raided the villages of Pubagu and Mayo-Ladde in the states of Borno and neighbouring Adamawa, respectively, on Tuesday afternoon after overwhelming local vigilantes, said Mada Saidu, chairman of Askira-Uba district, where one of the attacks occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least 11 people were killed in Pubagu and nine in Mayo-Ladde. Homes and shops were torched and food supplies looted, Saidu said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamist militants have waged a 17-year insurgency seeking to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, killing thousands and displacing at least 2 million people, aid groups say, despite major military campaigns to root them out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16039,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-32776","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Suspected Boko Haram militants riding motorbikes stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria","published_date":"2026-04-23 07:02:38","news_description":"Suspected Boko Haram militants riding motorbikes stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32777,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32776\/revisions\/32777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}