They say they’re the Islamic State In West Africa now but at the rate the Nigeria army is hunting them down these days there might not be anything left of them very soon.
One of their main means of terror is capturing towns and carting off their women and children into captivity. These women are used in all sorts of degrading means, as forced spouses who are raped continuously by their captors, just general sex and labour slaves, and as suicide bombers.
The most heard about are the Chibok girls, the incident were over 200 girls were captured from a school by Boko Haram. They might be the most famous, but there are several other groups of ladies who have fallen to the same fate.