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Boko Haram Claims Deadly Attack On Nigerian City

Islamist insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri...

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Farmers Call To Return Home

Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help...

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Boko Haram Kills 11 In NE Nigeria Attacks

Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the...

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Boko Haram Launches Major Attack On Northeast Nigerian City

Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant...

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Cameroon Soldiers Arrested After Demanding Bonuses

Around 30 Cameroonian soldiers fighting the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram were arrested after a demonstration to...

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Rescued Chibok Girls Won’t Be Going Back To Home Town For School

The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria's...

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Insecurity, Underfunding Hamper Nigeria Hunger Relief

Aid agencies warn that humanitarian efforts against hunger in northeastern Nigeria are dangerously underfunded and some...

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Funding Shortfall Hits Starving In NE Nigeria

Lack of funding is forcing aid agencies to cut feeding programmes for starving people in northeast Nigeria, the UN said...

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Lawmakers Ditch Probe of Outspoken Nigerian Ruler

Lawmakers in Kano state, northern Nigeria, have indefinitely suspended a probe into allegations of graft against one of...

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Suspected Boko Haram Jihadists Kill Vigilantes In Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed six people fighting alongside the military in two separate incidents in northeast...

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Chibok Girls Reunited With Families

A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families....

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82 Reunited With Families In Nigeria

A group of the "Chibok girls" freed from Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82...

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Joy As Chibok Girls Reunited With Parents

There were emotional scenes Saturday as 82 kidnapped Chibok girls released by Boko Haram Islamists earlier this month...

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Nigeria Says Freed Girl Not One of Chibok Abductees

Nigeria's government on Thursday retracted its announcement that another Chibok girl was free, saying she was not one...

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The Orphans of Boko Haram

After a night on the streets, the pack of young boys move into Maiduguri's abandoned amusement park in the early...

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Boko Haram Insurgents Kill Six Farmers In Nigeria

Boko Haram jihadists have killed six farmers who were working on their land near the northeastern Nigerian city of...

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‘I Refused To Marry Boko Haram Militants’

She said she was abducted with her father in Gwoza, Borno state, in 2013 A 14-year-old girl who surrendered while on a...

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Boko Haram Video Confirms Some Chibok Girls Against Release

Some Boko Haram girls are said to have refused to be released by their abductors A recent Boko Haram video has...

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Freed Boko Haram Fighter Says Group Ready To Attack Abuja

A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the group plans to bomb Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, in a video seen by...