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Baga | |
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  Baga Location in Nigeria | |
| Coordinates: 13°7′7.7″N 13°51′23.7″E / 13.118806°N 13.856583°E | |
| Country |  Nigeria |
| State | Borno |
Baga is a town in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad, and lying northeast of the town of Kukawa. It is located within the Kukawa Local Government Area.
The town is approximately 196 km from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.[1] The "Doron Baga" fish market, as of 2000, was located about six kilometres from the town.[1] Baga used to lie on the border of Lake Chad and was a fishing center itself in the 1960s and 1970s, but the diminishing size of the lake has caused fishermen to move, and others have turned to subsistence farming.[2][3][4]
The town and the nearby naval base have been under the control by the Islamic State's West Africa Province since December 2018.[5]
- ^ a b Mukhtar, Yakubu and Waziri A. Gazali. The Dynamics of Fish Trade in North-East Nigeria: A Case Study of Doron Baga, Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268, Band 14, Frankfurt a.M. 2000: 83-91
- ^ Idris, Hamza et al. (30 June 2012)Nigeria: Northern Communities Losing Territory to Desert, Daily Trust (AllAfrica.com)
- ^ Bomford, Andrew (14 April 2006). Slow death of Africa's Lake Chad, BBC News ("Just 30 years ago, water covered the whole area. Baga was a waterfront town. Now it is stranded many miles from the lake as the land around it becomes desert.")
- ^ Murray, Senan (15 January 2007). Lake Chad fisherman pack up their nets, BBC News
- ^ "Dozens killed in Nigeria fighting between army, jihadists: Sources".