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Islamist militants behead at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's Borno state -residents
Reuters via AOL· 9 months agoIslamist 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 ...
Nigeria's Borno state mobilises militia after 8 soldiers killed by militants
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNigeria'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 ...
Gunmen kidnap 12 in Nigeria's northern Zamfara and Borno states
Reuters via AOL· 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 ...
Cholera preys on displaced children in flood-hit Nigerian state
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRacing 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 ...
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 ...
Suspected militants kill four Nigerian police officers
Reuters via AOL· 3 months agoAt 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 ...
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...
Militants kill at least 50 in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAt least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria's Borno state, in the country's northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters ...
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 Islamist insurgents kill 25 in Nigeria's northeast
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSuspected 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 ...