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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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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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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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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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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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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?