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Boko Haram has shown some of those kidnapped on its propaganda videos Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president's spokesman has confirmed. Garba Shehu said the release was "the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Islamist militants". A security official told the BBC several militants were freed in a swap - bu
Reports from Nigeria say at least two bombs have ripped through two bus stations in the northern city of Gombe. At least 29 people have been killed in the blasts, a Red Cross official told the Reuters news agency. Earlier in the day, suicide bombers killed at least 11 people in neighbouring Cameroon. At least 49 people were killed in blasts at a market in Gombe last week. That attack was blamed on
A newly-formed Nigerian militant group has withdrawn a threat to attack oil pipelines in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta after a spate of incidents in 2016 plunged the country into recession. Nigeria, Africa's second-biggest economy, is heavily dependent upon its oil reserves, which account for a large share of GDP and more than 90 percent of the value of exports. In 2016, militants in the Nige
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Abubakar Shekau (centre) pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group but it later disowned him Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state. Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forb
A series of explosions on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja have killed at least 18 people, officials say. The first two struck Kuje township: one by a suicide bomber near a police station, the other a bomb at a market. Another bomb exploded at a bus stop in Nyanya. No group has said it carried out the attacks yet but suspicion has fallen on Boko Haram Islamists, who targeted Nyanya last
ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed at least 935 people since it launched an uprising in 2009, including more than 250 in the first weeks of this year, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. A security barrier marks the scene of a car bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church (background) at Madalla, Suleja, just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja, December 25, 2011. R
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