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  Rocket grenades kill 7 as Boko Haram attacks Nigerian city

  World | May 30, 2015 16:32 IST

  Maiduguri, Nigeria (AP):   Rocket-propelled grenades exploded into several home, killing at least seven people s in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri before dawn Saturday as Boko Haram unleashed a new kind of violence

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  Nigeria's military claims to destroy 10 Boko Haram camps

  World | May 18, 2015 18:21 IST

  Nigeria (AP):  Nigeria's military says it has destroyed 10 Boko Haram camps, killed many militants and captured heavy weaponry in the northeastern Sambisa Forest.This comes after a surge in attacks by the Islamic extremists including

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  Nigerian troops rescue 234 women, children from Boko Haram

  World | May 03, 2015 7:56 IST

  Abuja (Nigeria): A group of 234 women and children were rescued by the Nigerian troops from the northeast Sambisa forest on Thursday, the military said on Saturday.National military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said in

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  Nigerian army rescues 234 more girls from Boko Haram captivity

  World | May 02, 2015 10:14 IST

   LAGOS (Nigeria) : Nigeria's military has rescued 234 more girls and women from a Boko Haram forest stronghold in the country's northeast, an announcement on social media said Saturday.It brings the number of females declared

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  Nigerian forces rescue about 300 women from Boko Haram

  World | April 29, 2015 6:50 IST

  Maiduguri (Nigeria): Nigerian troops rescued nearly 300 girls and women during an offensive Tuesday against Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Sambisa Forest, the military said, but they did not include any of the schoolgirls

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  Boko Haram attacks Niger army base, defense ministry says

  World | April 27, 2015 9:31 IST

  Niamey, Niger: Suspected Boko Haram fighters in motorized canoes attacked a Niger army base on an island in Lake Chad, the body of water touching all four countries that have been targeted by Nigeria's Islamic

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  Nigeria's military oust Boko Haram from northern towns

  World | April 11, 2015 12:22 IST

  Gwoza: Nigeria's military officials boast that they have ousted Boko Haram extremists from all major towns and forest camps in a large area of northern Nigeria, but Associated Press journalists have seen evidence that the

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  US pledges support in fight against Boko Haram

  World | April 02, 2015 8:55 IST

  Washington: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged continuing US support to Nigeria and its regional partners in the fight against extremist group Boko Haram, a media report said on Thursday.In a separate telephonic talks

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  Egypt, Nigeria led world in death sentences in 2014: Report

  World | April 01, 2015 9:26 IST

  United Nations:Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world's total, Amnesty International says in its latest annual report on the death

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  Boko Haram unable to disrupt Nigeria elections: UN

  World | March 31, 2015 8:39 IST

  United Nations: Senior UN officials said on Monday that the Boko Haram militant group has been unable to disrupt the electoral process in Nigeria and following the involvement of regional forces in Nigeria, the area

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  Boko Haram militants told to 'kill wives' as troops demolish its headquarter

  World | March 28, 2015 8:13 IST

  Abuja: Nigerian military on Friday announced that the troops had taken back the Gwoza town from Boko Haram militants. The terrorist outfit had declared their caliphate from this place last year.Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told

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  Boko Haram attack kills 10 in Nigeria

  World | March 20, 2015 7:08 IST

  Abuja: At least 10 people were killed in an attack carried out by the Boko Haram militants in a Nigeria-Cameroon border town in Borno state, a security source said Thursday.The attack was carried out in

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  Cameroon says 25 Boko Haram suspects died in custody

  World | March 14, 2015 21:16 IST

  Cameroon: Cameroon acknowledged that more than two dozen Boko Haram suspects died in custody late last year, but a government spokesman denied the country's army was carrying out regular human rights abuses in its crackdown

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  ISIS accepts Boko Haram's allegiance pledge

  World | March 13, 2015 17:20 IST

  A spokesman for the ISIS terror group said Thursday that it had accepted a pledge of loyalty from Nigeria-based Boko Haram that was made last weekend.ISIS' media arm, al-Furqan, released an audio statement by spokesman

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  IS accepts Boko Haram's pledge of allegiance

  World | March 13, 2015 7:33 IST

  Washington: The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has announced that its leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Muslim world, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has accepted the pledge of allegiance from the Nigeria-based Boko Haram.A 28-minute audio

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  Revealed: Boko Haram being helped by IS propagandists

  World | March 13, 2015 8:37 IST

  Beirut: Nigerian-grown extremist group Boko Haram has been weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern Nigerian towns. But its new Twitter account, increasingly slick and more frequent video

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  Four killed, 20 injured in Nigeria blast

  World | March 11, 2015 9:25 IST

  Abuja:At least four people were killed and 20 injured in a blast in northern Nigeria's Borno state on Tuesday, according to media reports.The blast occurred in Maiduguri, the capital of the Borno state, around 4

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  Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State

  World | March 08, 2015 12:39 IST

  Maiduguri, Nigeria: Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram group, newly weakened by a multinational force that has dislodged it from a score of northeastern towns, reportedly pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group.The pledge to IS

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  Suicide bomber kills 10 in northeastern Nigeria market

  World | March 07, 2015 20:00 IST

  Maiduguri, Nigeria: A suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi blew himself up outside a busy Saturday fish market and killed at least 10 people in Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria, according to witnesses

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  Niger parliament approves troops deployment to fight Boko Haram

  World | February 10, 2015 17:16 IST

  Niamey: The Niger Parliament has unanimously approved deployment of troops to Nigeria alongside other forces from neighbouring countries to fight against Boko Haram sect.The Nigerien constitution stipulates that before deployment of the country's defence and