Boko Haram Nigeria announced that all Boko Haram camps had been destroyed. The group's name has always been "Jamā'atu Ahli is-Sunnah lid-Da'wati wal-Jihād" (), meaning "Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawa and Jihad". It was briefly known as "Wilayat Garb Ifrqiya", meaning "West African Province", between March 2015 and August 2016 while it was a part of the Islamic State. The name "Boko Haram" is usually translated as "Western education is forbidden". Haram is from the Arabic ("ḥarām", "forbidden"); and the Hausa word "boko" (the first vowel is long, the second pronounced in a low tone), meaning "fake", which is
A Word to the People A Word to the People "A Word to the People" (Russian: «Слово к народу») was an open letter signed by twelve Soviet public figures. The declaration was published in "Sovetskaya Rossiya" (a newspaper that expressed anti-perestroika views) on 23 July 1991. The signers included writers Yuri Bondarev, Valentin Rasputin and Alexander Prokhanov, singer Lyudmila Zykina, war generals Valentin Varennikov and Boris Gromov, sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, scientist and politicians Gennady Zyuganov, Vasily Starodubtsev, and . The authors of the writing appealed to the citizens of the country, severely criticizing the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, and they pleaded to