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Chibok girls feel let down 10 years after Nigeria kidnapping
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAmina Ali became the first Chibok girl to escape prolonged captivity in 2016 [BBC/Simpa Samson] We...
Boko Haram frees 49 women kidnapped in Nigeria's Borno state
Reuters via AOL· 9 months agoForty-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 ...
Kidnapped Nigerian girls freed, return to Chibok with babies
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo Nigerian women abducted as schoolgirls by a jihadi militant group nine years ago have been...
Suspected Boko Haram kills 15 farmers in northeast Nigeria
Reuters via AOL· 6 months agoAt least 15 rice farmers were killed and several others feared abducted in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked three villages, a local farmers' ...
Police: Extremists kill 25 fishermen in northeast Nigeria
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe rebels attacked the fishermen in the remote Mukdolo village of Borno where the years-long extremist violence is concentrated, said the local police chief Abdu Umar. Nigeria, Africa’s most ...
Gunmen kidnap nine students from Nigerian university
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least nine students were kidnapped from their classrooms by gunmen at a university in Nigeria's northern state of Kogi, the state government said on Friday, ...
Suspected Boko Haram kills at least 40 in Nigeria's Yobe state, police say
Reuters via AOL· 6 months agoAt least 40 people were killed in Nigeria's Yobe state between Monday and Tuesday after suspected Boko Haram militants shot at villagers and set off a land mine, in the first major attack on ...
Gunmen kidnap 12 in Nigeria's northern Zamfara and Borno states
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMAIDUGURI, 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 ...
Nigerian army rescues children among dozens who were abducted by Islamic rebels in the northeast
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNigerian security forces have rescued dozens of captives mostly women and children held by Islamic extremist rebels in the country’s hard-hit northeastern region, the army said. The Nigerian ...
Nigerian army rescues abducted Kaduna students
Reuters via AOL· 2 months agoMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -The Nigerian army on Sunday rescued students and staff who were abducted by gunmen from a school in the country's north...
