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
Arnfinn Haram Arnfinn Haram Arnfinn Andreas Haram O.P. (September 25, 1948 - 10, June 2012) was a Norwegian Dominican brother, social debater and nonfiction author, born in Ålesund, raising in Haram municipality in Sunnmøre, and dying in Oslo. Haram was educated at the Faculty of Theology in Oslo and became a priest in the Norwegian Church in Loddefjord and Laksevåg, both Bergen's boroughs. However in 1998 Haram converted to the Latin Church. He made his eternal vows in 2002 and became a Catholic priest in 2003. Haram studied at Angelicum in Rome, where he became a licentiate in theology in 2008 at