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Nigeria president: ‘beginning of the end of terrorism’
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says a group of kidnapped schoolgirls will be found, and their rescue will be a turning point in his country’s battle against the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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Nigeria kidnappings ‘act of pure evil’ – Cameron
David Cameron says the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria three weeks ago was an “act of pure evil”, as the Nigerian police offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to their rescue.
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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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Large parts of Nigeria ‘ungoverned’
Nigerian politician Yusuf Tuggar tells Channel 4 News Nigeria is not a failed state, but large swathes of the country are “ungoverned”.
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Kidnappings ‘show what Nigeria faces’
Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks to Channel 4 News live from Abuja as her government tries to find and rescue more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.
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Nigeria kidnappings: more girls abducted
Groups of armed men kidnapped eight more girls – most of them teenagers – and attacked a further school in Nigeria, adding to more than 200 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago.
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Nigeria schoolgirl kidnappings – what is going on?
Confusion and a lack of information have dominated the Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapping crisis something that one expert says plays into militant group Boko Haram’s plans.
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#BringBackOurGirls: protest over Nigerian kidnappings
A protest is held in London to demand the Nigerian government do more to rescue more than 200 school girls abducted by militants.
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Nigeria car bomb: explosion kills dozens in Abuja
A suspected car bomb explodes in Nigeria, killing at least 15 people. The explosion hit the Abuja suburb of Nyanya, close to the site of last month’s deadly bomb attack.
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Nigerian schoolgirls: jihadis ‘willing to consider’ release
The jihadis who kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls two weeks ago say they are “willing to consider” the release of those who have not already been trafficked abroad and sold into marriage.
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Exclusive: Nigerian girls ‘alive’ and deal is ‘within reach’
A hostage negotiator in direct contact with the kidnappers of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria tells Channel 4 News their safe release is “within reach”, but that their fate rests on a knife-edge.
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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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‘World must wake up’ to Nigerian schoolgirl kidnap
Foreign Secretary William Hague offers help in the hunt for more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls as ex-PM Gordon Brown, now UN education envoy, tells Channel 4 News the world must wake up.
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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?