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Tag Archives: Borno

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Northern youths on the hunt for Boko Haram insurgents in Maiduguri

June 11, 2013 no comments
In a mission of their own making, a group of youths from Maiduguri have launched a man hunt for suspected Boko Haram members. Daily Trust has the story of how more than 500 youths from the Gwange, Bl...
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Military shows off abandoned Boko Haram camp, says they are winning th...

June 8, 2013 no comments
A tour of an abandoned Boko Haram camp, shown on Reuters, reveals what is left on the front lines of Nigeria’s biggest military offensive against the radical Islamist sect – burnt vehicle...
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Drugs, sex and Boko Haram; military raids reveal sect’s “d...

June 2, 2013 no comments
Nigerian military on Saturday claimed they found evidence of illicit drugs and sex on raided Boko Haram camps. Spokesman of the Defence Headquarters, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, revealed this in a st...
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How Boko Haram sect paid children N5,000 to burn schools and spy on so...

June 1, 2013 no comments
The Boko Haram sect often employed underage children in carrying out their terror attacks. The report comes as the Nigeria’s military on Friday released 23 women and 35 children arrested in con...
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58 women and children arrested in connection with Boko Haram released

May 31, 2013 no comments
Nigeria’s military has released 58 women and children related to Boko Haram insurgents that were arrested in connection with radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. Authorities said on Friday that th...
Al Jazeera on YouTube. Dead bodies surrounded by soldiers. It is not clear if these are Boko Haram insurgents or civilians.

PHOTOS/VIDEO: Soldier says more civilians than insurgents killed in th...

May 31, 2013 4 comments
A military source in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege has said more civilians than insurgents have been killed in the massive offensive campaign launched against the Boko H...
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State of Emergency: Nigeria’s military arrests Boko Haram insurg...

May 27, 2013 2 comments
Nigeria’s military says it is closing in on Boko Haram insurgents in the northeastern city of Maiduguri as they continue to intensify their “massive” offensive against insurgents. V...
Women rescued from Boko Haram.

VIDEO: Women rescued from Boko Haram tell their story

May 27, 2013 no comments
The women who were rescued from the Boko Haram sect by Nigerian military have opened up about their ordeal as captives of the nation’s terrorist sect. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Yv...
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill security official in Maiduguri

May 26, 2013 no comments
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect killed a security official on Friday, the Vanguard reports. The security official is suspected to be a personnel of the Department of Security Se...
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Nigeria’s military rescues women and children kidnapped by Boko ...

May 24, 2013 no comments
Nigeria’s military says it has rescued several women and children believed to have been hostages of Boko Haram sect leader Imam Abubakar Shekau. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, spokesman of the Def...
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New York police make arrests in murder of Nigerian cabbie

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As many as 60 people are feared dead in Zamfara State where an armed gang staged a deadly reprisal attack on a village on Tuesday morning, locals have said. The assailants, numbering about 150, stormed Kizara village in Tsafe Local Government Area, t... 60 feared dead as gunmen attack in Zamfara State

8 Russian sailors acquitted in Nigeria arms smuggling case
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RIA NOVOSTI – A court in Nigeria on Tuesday acquitted eight of 15 Russian sailors who had been arrested near the West African country’s coast in October 2012 on arms smuggling charges. The sailors were the crew of the MV Myre Seadiver ves...

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At least 5 NECO candidates killed in Maiduguri

Suspected Boko Haram fighters have attacked yet another school in Borno state, a sect stronghold currently under a state of emergency. Reports have put the death toll between five and nine students who were killed when insurgents attacked Anasarudin,...

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