{"id":5374,"date":"2026-06-08T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/boko-haram-a-decade-of-terror-explained-bbc-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:45:03","slug":"boko-haram-a-decade-of-terror-explained-bbc-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/boko-haram-a-decade-of-terror-explained-bbc-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: A decade of terror explained &#8211; BBC Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jsVgXJLXtdw?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>It is exactly 10 years since the leader of Nigeria&#8217;s militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>His death sparked a campaign of terror in Nigeria that has left more than 30,000 people dead and displaced more than two million people.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Nigeria correspondent Mayeni Jones examines the roots of the militant group, its rise to global infamy and whether it will remain a force in the region in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Graphics, animation and editing: Manuella Bonomi<\/p>\n<p>Producers: Naomi Scherbell-Ball and Hugo Williams<\/p>\n<p>Researchers: Sheila Kimani and Princess Abumere<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jsVgXJLXtdw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is exactly 10 years since the leader of Nigeria&#8217;s militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in police custody. His death sparked a campaign of terror in Nigeria that has left more than 30,000 people dead and displaced more than two million people. The BBC&#8217;s Nigeria correspondent Mayeni Jones examines the roots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934168192,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1557,434,10520,15,3701,10519,10038,10515,10516,10517,10518],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-animated-explainer-video","tag-bbc","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-nigeria","tag-explained","tag-explainer-video","tag-mayeni-jones","tag-what-is-boko-haram","tag-who-is-boko-haram-leader","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934168192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}