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Nigeria sect holds 7 French hostages

A video posted online today apparently shows seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon, with a masked militant claiming the radical Islamic group Boko Haram from neighbouring Nigeria holds them.The video, posted to...
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Students Die In Horrific School Attack


Islamic militants killed 29 students in a pre-dawn attack on a northeast Nigerian school, survivors said, setting ablaze a locked dormitory and shooting and slitting the throats of those who escaped through windows. Some were burned...
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10 Facts About Militant Group Boko Haram


In an all-girl state secondary school in Chibok, a local government area of Borneo State, Nigeria, girls were sitting their exams when heavily armed Islamist gunmen stormed the school, over-powering soldiers guarding the school and...
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The origins of Nigeria's Boko Haram:

Armed group that kidnapped more than 270 school girls has been in conflict with government for 12 years. Ref. Source 4

Militants Islamist Haram Boko Nigeria

Boko Haram Attacks Three Nigerian Villages, 48 People Killed:

Boko Haram assaulted three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 48 people, residents said Wednesday, hours after twin bombings claimed at least 118 lives in this central city in an attack the government blamed on the Islamic extremists. Ref. ICH

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Nigeria army 'knows where girls are'

Nigerian military say they know where schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April are but cannot make it public Ref. BBC

Nigeria Boko Haram Islamist Militants

Boko Haram kills 35 in attacks on Nigeria villages:

Boko Haram gunmen killed 35 people in attacks on three villages in Nigeria's restive northeast Borno state near the border with Cameroon, a military source and residents said Thursday. Ref. Source 7

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Nigeria: Boko Haram gunmen kill senior Muslim cleric in northeast:

The state government said that the attack was also targeted on two more Muslim heads of state who escaped unharmed, but two policemen were killed in the attck. Ref. Source 7