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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,

Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave “brides”

YoopyaNov 18, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by

U.S. to name Nigeria’s Boko Haram as terrorist group: sources

YoopyaNov 13, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – The State Department will formally designate the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization on Wednesday, congressional sources and

Nigeria tells U.N. sparing no effort tackling terrorism ‘menace’

YoopyaSep 25, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – An Islamist insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast is challenging the country’s stability and every effort is being made to tackle the extremists with “due

Nigerian army kills 50 Islamists in their stronghold

YoopyaSep 7, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Nigerian soldiers have tracked down and killed 50 members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram in its northeastern stronghold, an army spokesman said

Nigeria: 24 die in blasts in Kano’s Christian area

YoopyaJul 31, 2013June 16, 20240

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple explosions at a bar and entertainment area in a Christian quarter of Nigeria’s northern and mainly Muslim city of Kano

Boko Haram crisis Nigeria to free women

YoopyaMay 22, 2013March 29, 20230

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the release of all women held in connection with “terrorist activity”, the defence ministry says. The decision was aimed

Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive

YoopyaMay 20, 2013August 18, 20240

(Reuters) – Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants’ activities had been

Man charged over Nigeria Christmas church bomb that killed 37

YoopyaApr 19, 20130

(Reuters) – Nigerian authorities charged a man on Friday with masterminding a 2011 Christmas Day bomb attack on a Catholic church in the capital that

Nigeria Boko Haram amnesty bid gets president’s backing

YoopyaApr 18, 2013November 10, 20240

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a new committee to look at how an amnesty for the Islamist group, Boko Haram, can be implemented.