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Nigerian Islamist militants free three aid workers, other civilian hostages
Islamist militants released three aid workers and other civilians in northeast Nigeria who had been held hostage since late December, a United Nations official said today. The people were kidnapped on Dec. 22 by militants posing as soldiers who stopped
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Militant attack in Nigerian town kills 20 soldiers, displaces 1,000 residents
About 20 soldiers were killed and nearly 1,000 people made homeless in a militant attack on a town in northeastern Nigeria, two residents and a military source said yesterday. The militants entered Monguno in Borno state posing as a convoy
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Dozens of mourners ‘killed by Boko Haram’ at a funeral
At least 65 people have lost their lives after suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire on a funeral in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Borno. Gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in vans at the village near the state capital, Maiduguri, on
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