Boko Haram
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30 bus passengers kidnapped by Boko Haram in Cameroon
World | Feb 10, 2015, 04:21 PM ISTYaounde: About 30 passengers of a bus were kidnapped on Monday by suspected Boko Haram militants in a town in Cameroon along the border with Nigeria, military sources told Xinhua.The kidnapping took place in Tourou
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Residents: Suspected Boko Haram fighters attack 3 Cameroon towns, kidnap dozens
World | Feb 09, 2015, 09:08 PM ISTYaounde, Cameroon: Suspected Boko Haram fighters launched attacks on three communities in northern Cameroon, abducting more than 30 people including those aboard a packed bus, residents said Monday.The assaults by the Nigeria-based terror group came
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Boko Haram kills 70 in Cameroon border town
World | Feb 05, 2015, 04:09 PM ISTAbuja: Boko Haram militants have reportedly killed at least 70 people in an attack on the Cameroonian town of Fotokol on the border with Nigeria.The Islamist militants attacked civilians in their homes and in the
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Five killed in another Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
World | Feb 02, 2015, 07:17 AM ISTAbuja: Boko Haram militants killed five people in two separate attacks in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe Sunday, witnesses said.One of the attacks, by a suspected suicide bomber, targeted a military checkpoint in the
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Boko Haram claims responsibility for Baga attack
World | Jan 22, 2015, 06:27 AM ISTAbuja: The Boko Haram militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Baga village in Nigeria earlier this month in which hundreds of people were killed, media reported on Wednesday.The group also threatened
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Boko Haram militants kill Woman while she was in labour
World | Jan 16, 2015, 09:30 PM ISTNigeria: A woman who was giving birth to a baby boy was killed by the Boko Haram terrorists in North- east Nigeria.The militants started shooting “indiscriminately”, killing small children and even a woman who was
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Boko Haram attack in Nigeria's Baga town displaces 3,200
World | Jan 13, 2015, 09:14 AM ISTLagos: At least 3,200 people were displaced in the Nigerian state of Borno after attacks by Boko Haram militants last week in the town of Baga, Nigeria's emergency management agency said Monday.The National Emergency Management
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10 year old girl suicide bomber kills at least 16 in Nigeria
World | Jan 11, 2015, 12:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: At least 16 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in the city of Maiduguri of Nigeria, police say.“The explosive
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Over 7,000 refugees flee to Chad after Nigeria violence
World | Jan 10, 2015, 01:02 PM ISTUnited Nations: Around 7,300 Nigerian refugees have fled to the neighbouring Chad, over the last 10 days, following violence in northeastern Nigeria, the UN said Friday.Citing the UN Refugee Agency, UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq,
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Boko Haram destroys at least 16 towns, villages in Nigeria
World | Jan 09, 2015, 03:58 PM ISTKano (Nigeria): Boko Haram, a militant Islamist movement based in Nigeria, destroyed at least 16 towns and villages after capturing a key military base in Northeast Nigeria today, according to officials.Musa Bukar, head of the
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Boko Haram attacks Nigeria market, 15 killed
World | Dec 23, 2014, 07:47 AM ISTAbuja: An explosion at a market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Bauchi on Monday, killed at least 15 people, witnesses said.According to a witness, the explosion occurred near a police outpost inside the busy market,
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Video shows Boko Haram killing captives
World | Dec 21, 2014, 06:36 PM ISTMaiduguri, Nigeria :A new video from Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists shows gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in a dorm, and a leader saying they are being killed because they are “infidels” or
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10 killed in Nigeria market bombing
World | Dec 02, 2014, 08:07 AM ISTAbuja: At least 10 people were killed Monday in twin bomb blasts at a market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state, media reported.The two bombs went off at mid-morning
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Boko Haram kills 48 Nigerian fishermen
World | Nov 24, 2014, 07:38 AM ISTAbuja: Members of Nigeria's armed terrorist group Boko Haram have killed 48 people in an attack on fish sellers near the border with Chad, a media report said on Sunday.The attack took place on Thursday,
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At least 45 dead in suspected Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
World | Nov 21, 2014, 09:39 AM ISTMaiduguri (Nigeria): At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, officials and witnesses have said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region.The attack happened in the
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PM Narendra Modi condemns Nigeria suicide attack
National | Nov 11, 2014, 06:41 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condemned the suicide attack in a boy's school in Nigeria in which 48 people were killed.In a tweet, the Prime Minister said: "The attack in Nigeria is
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Boko Haram denies truce, kidnapped girls married
World | Nov 01, 2014, 04:30 PM ISTMaiduguri, Nigeria: The leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married
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Deal with Boko Haram on ceasefire, release of abducted girls: Nigeria
World | Oct 18, 2014, 10:25 AM ISTAbuja:Nigeria today claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough.Chief of Defence Staff Air
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Cameroon vows to wipe out Boko Haram after hostages' release
World | Oct 14, 2014, 10:22 AM ISTYaounde: Cameroon's President Paul Biya today vowed his government would go after the Islamist group Boko Haram "until it's totally wiped out".He made the promise as he received 10 Chinese and 17 Cameroonians freed last
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Boko Haram Video Shows Beheading of Nigeria Pilot
World | Oct 04, 2014, 07:45 AM ISTLagos: A new Boko Haram video shows the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet and burnt out parts of a plane the first indication that Nigeria's