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  11 killed in Nigeria suicide bombings

  World | June 16, 2015 6:44 IST

  Abuja:  At least 11 people were killed on Monday in a twin suicide bombing in Nigeria's city of Potiskum, hospital sources said.The attacks are suspected to be carried out by two Boko Haram suicide bombers,

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  19 killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

  World | June 10, 2015 7:04 IST

  Abuja: Nineteen people were killed when Boko Haram militants stormed a village in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, local residents said on Tuesday.The militants sieged the remote Huyum village Monday afternoon, shooting sporadically and indiscriminately

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  Suicide bombings kill more than 50 in Nigeria

  World | June 03, 2015 7:00 IST

  Maidugiri, Nigeria: Police say four suicide bomb attacks Saturday killed at least 54 people and wounded 143 in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri that is the birthplace of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.Police

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  Suicide bomber kills 20 in northern Nigeria

  World | June 02, 2015 19:15 IST

  Maiduguri (Nigeria): Witnesses say that a suicide bombing at market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri has killed as many as 20 people.  The town had already been attacked in the early hours of this

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  Suicide bombing kills 25 in Nigeria

  World | May 31, 2015 6:42 IST

  Abuja: A suicide bombing has killed at least 25 people at a mosque in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a media report said.Scores were wounded in the attack on Saturday, that followed an overnight assault

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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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  Fresh new case of polio detected in Pakistan

  World | April 05, 2015 11:24 IST

  New Delhi: At least one new polio case has been detected in Pakistan's northwestern province, taking the number of cases found so far this year to 21.The Polio Virology Laboratory of the National Institute of

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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 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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  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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  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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  Residents: Suspected Boko Haram fighters attack 3 Cameroon towns, kidnap dozens

  World | February 09, 2015 21:08 IST

  Yaounde, 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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  Five killed in another Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

  World | February 02, 2015 7:17 IST

  Abuja: 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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  Bird flu outbreak confirmed in 11 Nigerian states

  World | January 29, 2015 6:47 IST

  Lagos: The Nigerian government Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in 11 states.Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwumi Adesina, made the disclosure at an emergency meeting on avian influenza (bird flu) in Abuja,