Boko Haram / JAS (Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad)

Boko Haram (formally Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad / JAS) is a Salafi-jihadist insurgent group operating principally in north-eastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad basin since roughly 2002. The group rose to international prominence following the 2009 Maiduguri uprising and the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls abduction. It was proscribed by the Federal Government of Nigeria on 24 May 2013 under the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, listed by the UN Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee on 22 May 2014, and designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the U.S. State Department in November 2013. JAS is the parent designation; ISWAP (covered separately) split off in 2016 after pledging allegiance to ISIS. The node here is used exclusively as the official-designation organisation reference for financier, business, and court-convicted entries; it does NOT itself carry political-patronage attribution.