 | 2015-08-24 14:32:33 | sentences | site |
- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Monday to 23 colleagues killed four years ago in a Boko Haram car bombing at his organization's Nigeria headquarters.
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| 2015-08-23 22:20:00 | sentences | site |
- A convoy carrying Nigeria's chief of army staff has been ambushed by suspected Boko Haram militants.
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| 2015-08-23 12:14:18 | sentences | site |
- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to arrive in Nigeria Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization's headquarters and focus new attention on 219 schoolgirls held by the extremists.
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| 2015-08-22 18:39:39 | sentences | site |
- Nigerian army chief escapes Boko Haram ambush
- NGALA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's new army chief drove to the frontline of the war on Boko Haram and narrowly missed an ambush that killed one soldier and wounded two.
- Nigeria's military has said it has been plagued by leaked information from Boko Haram sympathizers in its ranks.
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| 2015-08-22 13:10:15 | sentences | site |
- Further evidence of Boko Haram's links with IS is the arrest on Aug. 15 by Lebanese authorities of hard-line IS cleric Ahmad al-Assir at Beirut airport.
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| 2015-08-22 13:05:33 | sentences | site |
- Boko Haram strengthens ties with Islamic State group
- An estimated 80 to 200 Boko Haram fighters are in the Libyan city of Sirte, according to Nigeria analyst Jacob Zenn, in The Sentinel magazine of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation.
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| 2015-08-22 13:05:33 | sentences | site |
- Boko Haram pledged allegiance to IS in March and in June was declared its West African province.
- Algerian security forces believe Boko Haram fighters have joined other militants in northern Niger, he wrote.
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| 2015-08-18 19:49:43 | sentences | site |
- Up to 150 people have drowned in a river or been shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen who raided a remote village in Nigeria's north-eastern Yobe state, locals say.
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 | 2015-08-17 07:38:40 | sentences | site |
- Boko Haram Boss Denies He's Been Replaced
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 | 2015-08-17 01:46:08 | sentences | site |
- Boko Haram leader Shekau says he is alive
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| 2015-08-15 10:46:57 | sentences | site |
- Cameroon pledges 2,450 troops to anti-Boko Haram force
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 | 2015-08-15 10:46:57 | sentences | site |
- At a meeting in Cameroon in February, Nigeria and a group of neighboring countries that also includes Chad, Niger and Benin agreed to deploy around 8,700 troops against Boko Haram, which became an affiliate of the Islamic State group earlier this year.
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 | 2015-08-03 03:47:12 | sentences | site |
- Boko Haram was pushed out of most of the vast swathes of territory it controlled at the start of the year but they have dispersed and returned to their guerilla tactics of hitting soft targets with bombs, and raiding towns.
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 | 2015-08-03 01:18:00 | sentences | site |
- Hundreds have been freed from Boko Haram captivity this year but none of the 219 girls abducted in April 2014 from a school in Chibok were among those rescued.
- Some of those rescued last week said they had been held by Boko Haram for up to one year in villages just 25 miles from Maiduguri.
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| 2015-08-02 23:27:46 | sentences | site |
- He added that a Boko Haram commander had also been captured and several militant camps were cleared around the town of Bama, about 70 km south-east of the state capital Maiduguri.
- Nigeria's airforce also said that it helped ground troops repel an attack by Boko Haram around the village of Bitta on the southern edge of the Sambisa forest reserve, a stronghold of the militant group.
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 | 2015-08-02 22:57:49 | sentences | site |
- Boko Haram has been waging a six-year insurgency in the northeast of Africa's biggest economy in an attempt to establish an Islamist state adhering to strict sharia law.
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| 2015-08-02 22:49:31 | sentences | site |
- ABUJA - Nigeria's army said late on Sunday that it rescued 178 people held by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria's Borno state, the heartland of the insurgency.
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 | 2015-08-02 22:17:16 | sentences | site |
- Nigerian troops rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several camps of the Islamic extremists in the northeast of the country, an army statement said Sunday, Aug. 2.
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 | 2015-08-02 17:20:32 | sentences | site |
- The review comes three months after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has vowed to crush the Boko Haram Islamic uprising which has spilled across Nigeria's borders.
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| 2015-07-31 01:14:15 | sentences | site |
- LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's Defense Ministry has appointed a new general to head the multinational army to fight Boko Haram.
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 | 2015-07-30 21:55:39 | sentences | site |
- New Nigerian general to head multinational Boko Haram fight
- Chad announced Thursday that its troops killed 13 Boko Haram fighters in attacks this week near Lake Chad, where militants slit the throats of three villagers.
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| 2015-07-30 20:48:02 | sentences | site |
- Women and children rescued by Nigerian soldiers from Boko Haram extremists in the northeast of Nigeria arrive at the military office in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, July 30, 2015.
- Soldiers rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed many Boko Haram militants in villages near the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria's military said Thursday.
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| 2015-07-28 14:57:14 | sentences | site |
- "The two countries are intertwined and have no choice but to have a relationship to deal with Boko Haram," said Chris Fomunyoh, an analyst with the Washington-based National Democratic Institute.
- On Monday, Boko Haram killed at least 29 people in two Christian villages in northeast Nigeria, while in Cameroon, suicide bombings claimed 60 lives over the past week.
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| 2015-07-28 11:56:59 | sentences | site |
- More recently, Nigeria accused Cameroon of doing little to prevent Boko Haram from using their territory as a refuge.
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