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Nigerian Christian woman whose husband was killed in attack returns home
Shaforon village in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state is all but deserted. Residents fled to the bigger cities of Numan and…
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101 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram 4 years after Chibok
DAPCHI, Nigeria — As many as 101 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists Feb. 19 and are still…
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Nigerian clergy demand compensation for churches destroyed by Boko Haram
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Religious leaders in Nigeria are renewing and amplifying their call for the government to pay compensation for…
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Child suicide bombings by Boko Haram at all-time high
NORTHEAST NIGERIA — Boko Haram’s abuse of children as suicide bombers is at an all-time high in the Lake Chad…
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Boko Haram kills 83, releases video of 3 captives
BORNO, Nigeria — Boko Haram killed at least 83 civilians and soldiers in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria in…
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Funds shortage forces U.N. to cut emergency food aid for 400,000 in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has had to scale back plans for emergency feeding of…
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82 Chibok girls released; 113 still missing
ABUJA, Nigeria —A group of 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed after more than three years of Boko Haram captivity met with…
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Parents of missing Chibok schoolgirls continue to pray and hope
CHIBOK, Nigeria — Three years later the parents of the nearly 200 missing Chibok schoolgirls continue to pray and hope…
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Congress passes bill devoted to fighting Boko Haram
WASHINGTON — The United States House of Representatives unanimously approved a bipartisan bill to help counter Boko Haram’s insurgency in…
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75,000 children in N. Nigeria at risk of ‘dying of hunger’
Seventy-five thousand children are at risk of dying of hunger in north-east Nigeria, reports the United Nation, as the region…
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