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Governor visits site of Boko Haram massacre
The governor of Borno state, in Nigeria, visits the town of Gamboru Ngala, where around 300 people were massacred by Boko Haram last week.
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Boko Haram video shows kidnapped schoolgirls
Around 100 kidnapped girls are seen for the first time in a video reported to have been released by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from Abuja.
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Mass burials in Nigeria after Boko Haram attack
A local trader who survived an attack this week by Boko Haram insurgents on a remote town in Nigeria, in which more than 300 may have died, tells Channel 4 News it was followed by mass burials.
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Bob Geldof: Boko Haram is a symptom of poverty
Bob Geldof tells Channel 4 News that the terror in Nigeria is spurred by poverty. “There has to be a more equitable distribution of the Nigeria’s vast wealth,” he says.
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Boko Haram’s four-year reign of terror – infographic
The kidnapping of 270 schoolgirls shines a global spotlight on Boko Haram’s brutal campaign in Nigeria a four-year rampage of murder, kidnap and attacks on schools.
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Nigeria: at least 300 killed in latest Boko Haram attack
A 12-hour long attack on a town in the north east of Nigeria leaves at least 300 dead after gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram terrorists opened fire in a market before attacking local homes.
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Boko Haram: ‘I abducted your girls’
The Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls, vowing to sell the girls into slavery.
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Boko Haram: who are the group bringing terror to Nigeria?
The jihadist group’s escalating campaign of terror has claimed 4,000 civilian lives in just four years, and Boko Haram is now linked to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls. But who are they?
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Boko Haram: Nigeria faces Islamist war of attrition
The Nigerian government seems to be no closer to finding the missing girls seized in an attack on a school last week. Channel 4 News looks at the questions the crisis raises.
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Terror grips northern Nigeria after ‘Boko Haram’ kidnappings
Last week’s kidnapping of 230 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, which is being blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram, has plunged the region into chaos. Will the victims ever be seen again?
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Boko Haram Islamist militants in Nigerian ‘village massacre’
A group of suspected Islamist fighters has killed at least 90 people in an attack on a remote village in northeast Nigeria on Sunday.
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Nigeria says scores killed in gun battle with Boko Haram
The Nigerian military says it has killed at least 50 Islamist rebels as they tried to cross into Cameroon, in a fierce gun battle that saw 15 of their own troops and five civilians die.
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Boko Haram ‘guilty of crimes against humanity’
Widespread and systematic murder and persecution by militant Islamist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria amounts to crimes against humanity, claims a new report by Human Rights Watch.
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May promises Nigeria help to combat terror
Theresa May has promised to help Nigeria combat terror attacks by the extremist Boko Haram group, announcing a new security partnership to give the country’s armed forces more specialist equipment and training.
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Jubilation as Chibok school girls reunited with families
There have been scenes of jubilation in Nigeria after 82 of the so-called Chibok school girls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram were reunited with their parents.
