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‘I met 24 of the Chibok schoolgirls held by Boko Haram’
A young Nigerian woman who escaped from a Boko Haram camp says she was held with some of the missing schoolgirls from Chibok as recently as three months ago.
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The leader of the Nigerian Islamist group says his fighters will obey Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-styled “caliph” whose followers have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
President Obama calls on Muslims around the world to fight the misconception that groups like the Islamic State speak for them.
A young Nigerian woman who escaped from a Boko Haram camp says she was held with some of the missing schoolgirls from Chibok as recently as three months ago.
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