Gamboru (or Gamburu) is a

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Borno State Borno is a States of Nigeria, state in the North East (Nigeria), North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It is bordered by Yobe State, Yobe to the west, Gombe State, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa State, Adamawa to the south while its ea ...

, northeast

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, near the

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border.

Ngala Ngala is a local government area of Borno State, Nigeria, adjacent to the border with Cameroon. Its headquarters are in the town of Gamboru Ngala. It has an area of 1,465 km and a population of 237,071 at the 2006 census. The postal code ...

is the administrative headquarters of the local government area. A 2013 IRIN report indicated that pharmacies in Gamboru Ngala were subject to attack by Islamist

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Boko Haram Boko Haram, officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (), is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group spli ...

, and that the prices of medicines had "gone up by at least a third" as a result. The Boko Haram attack on Gamboru on May 5–6, 2014, and its twin town of

killed at least 300 people. Some residents reported that they planned to move to

in the wake of the attacks, and a

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source indicated that corruption was hampering efforts to defend local residents. On May 9, 2014, it was reported that the bridge linking Gamboru to the rest of Nigeria, and also linking "the

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of both Cameroon and Nigeria," had been destroyed. On May 11 it was reported that Borno State Governor

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had visited the town to view the destruction and offer condolences, and "promised to rebuild the Gamboru Ngala central market." Local government chairman Bakura Mustapha indicated that over 200 vehicles, and "hundreds of shops and houses" had been burned. On 2 February 2015, the

said it had recaptured Gamboru from Boko Haram, along with the nearby towns of Mafa, Mallam Fatori, Abadam, and

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, following joint military operations by Nigerian and Cameroonian forces, civilian forces, and three days of Chadian airstrikes. On 6 January 2020, a bomb at the marketplace on the bridge to

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killed at least 30 people.

Climate

In Gamboru, the dry

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is oppressively hot, windy, and generally cloudy, whereas the

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is oppressively hot, oppressive, and partially cloudy. The average annual temperature ranges from 58 to 106 degrees Fahrenheit, and it rarely falls below or rises over 111 degrees.

References

Populated places in Borno State {{BornoNG-geo-stub