Marte is a

Local Government Area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

Borno State Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern border ...

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, on the western coast of

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. Its headquarters are in the town of Marte It has an area of 3,154 km and a population of 129,370 at the 2006 census. The

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of the area is 611. It is one of the sixteen LGAs that constitute the

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, a

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located in Borno State, Nigeria.

Agriculture

In 2013, according to PM News,

5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of wheat and rice were left to rot in the Marte area of Borno near
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after 19,000 farmers abandoned their farms. “We lost 200 metric tonnes of wheat as a result of the exodus,” said Abubakar Gabra Iliya, head of the Lake Chad Basin Development Agency, based in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. A 2012 NEMA report said that violence linked to the
Boko Haram Boko Haram, officially known as ''Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād'' ( ar, جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, lit=Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad), is an Islamic terrorist organization ...
insurgency has caused 60 percent of farmers to leave the fertile region.

Boko Haram violence

In May 2014, Boko Haram attacked villages in Marte LGA, according to

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. Kirenowa town had about 20 deaths, with one observer stating that over 60 houses were burnt. In the town of Ngurmuji, over 40 deaths were reported. In Gurmushi Village, a "remote border community" on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, 40 deaths were reported. However, this claim could not be verified as of May 28. On 2 February 2015, the

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said it had recaptured Marte from Boko Haram, along with the nearby towns of

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, Mafa, Mallam Fatori, and

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, following joint military operations by Nigerian and Cameroonian forces, civilian forces, and three days of Chadian airstrikes. However, in August 2016, Borno State government stated that Marte still hadn't been fully cleared of Boko Haram control. On 16 January

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, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters armed with machine guns overran the military base in Marte. ISWAP said seven were killed and one person was captured. They said they seized weapons, ammunition, six-wheel vehicles, and burned down the barracks.

References

Local Government Areas in Borno State Populated places in Borno State {{BornoNG-geo-stub