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1. • Islamist militants behead at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's Borno state -residents

     Reuters via AOL· 10 months ago

     Islamist militants have beheaded at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's northern state of Borno after attacking their farms, residents said on Monday. Last week, militants killed at least 25 people ...

2. • Nigeria's Borno state mobilises militia after 8 soldiers killed by militants

     Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Nigeria's Borno state government has asked for 300 militia to help the military clear out Islamist insurgents after they killed at least eight soldiers during an attack in the northeastern town ...

3. • Gunmen kidnap 12 in Nigeria's northern Zamfara and Borno states

     Reuters via AOL· 9 months ago

     MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -At least 12 people have been kidnapped in two separate incidents in northern Nigeria, officials and witnesses said on Saturday. In the first incident, unidentified ...

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     Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria

     Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 weeks ago

     Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko...

5. • Cholera preys on displaced children in flood-hit Nigerian state

     Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Racing against time, a yellow tuk-tuk collected nine-year-old Salaeh Mohammed from an internally displaced persons camp and rushed him to a cholera treatment centre in the northeast Nigerian ...

6. • Boko Haram frees 49 women kidnapped in Nigeria's Borno state

     Reuters via AOL· 9 months ago

     Forty-nine women kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier in the week near Maiduguri, in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, regained their freedom early on Friday after a state official paid a ransom ...

7. • Suspected militants kill four Nigerian police officers

     Reuters via AOL· 4 months ago

     At least four police officers were killed in Nigeria's northeast Borno state after a gun battle with suspected Islamist insurgents, a police spokesperson said on Saturday. Borno has been the ...

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     Nigerian army rescues abducted Kaduna students

     Reuters via AOL· 2 months ago

     MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -The Nigerian army on Sunday rescued students and staff who were abducted by gunmen from a school in the country's north...

9. • Suspected Islamist insurgents kill 25 in Nigeria's northeast

     Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     Suspected Islamist fighters killed 25 people on Thursday in a village in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, two residents and a military source said on Friday. An insurgency by Boko Haram and ...

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      Kidnapped Nigerian girls freed, return to Chibok with babies

      Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

      Two Nigerian women abducted as schoolgirls by a jihadi militant group nine years ago have been...