Baga Sola is home to Chadians who fled a group who also refers to themselves as al-Wilya al-Islmiyya Gharb Afrqiyyah.
 It has a hospital and a fish market, and a refugee camp for Nigerians and Chadians who fled Boko Haram. 
Boko Haram, referred to by themselves as al-Wilya al-Islmiyya Gharb Afrqiyyah (Arabic:      , (Islamic State West Africa Province, "ISWAP") and Jam'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihd (Arabic:       , "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad"), is an Islamic extremist terrorist group based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon. 
