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Africa: Nigeria’s leader cancels trip to village of abducted 200 schoolgirls

YoopyaMay 16, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to the village from which more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Islamist rebel

Africa: Nigerian leader to visit village where young girls were being gripped

YoopyaMay 16, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday visit the northeastern village where more than 200 schoolgirls were seized a month ago by Islamist

Africa: Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners

YoopyaMay 12, 2014September 16, 20230

(Reuters) – The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last

Africa: Nigeria offers $300,000 reward for information on kidnapped girls

YoopyaMay 7, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigerian police offered a 50 million naira ($300,000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who could give information leading to the rescue of more

Nigeria news: Nigeria’s Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped schoolgirls

YoopyaMay 6, 2014September 7, 20230

(Reuters) – The leader of Boko Haram on Monday threatened to sell more than 200 schoolgirls his Islamist militant group kidnapped in northeastern Nigeria last

Africa: Islamic militants claim this week’s Nigeria blast

YoopyaApr 21, 2014September 26, 20230

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists Saturday claimed responsibility for the massive rush-hour explosion earlier this week that ripped through a busy bus station in

Africa: 20 killed as Islamic extremists rampage in Nigeria

YoopyaApr 17, 2014September 30, 20230

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants have struck for a fourth time in three days in Nigeria, killing 20 people including a traditional ruler

Boko Haram: Nigerian army losing grip on northeast as Islamists rampage

YoopyaMar 5, 2014September 26, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s military is losing control of swathes of the largely Muslim northeast to radical Islamist insurgents who are killing civilians almost daily, and

Thousands fleeing Boko Haram find little comfort in Niger

YoopyaFeb 26, 2014September 30, 20230

DAKAR, Feb 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Gremah Umara was hoping for a refuge when he, his wife and their two-year-old daughter fled an Islamist

45 killed in Nigeria market attack; police blame Boko Haram

YoopyaJan 31, 2014November 1, 20230

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) — Suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire on a village market and burned homes in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno late Sunday,