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Suspected Islamists raid Nigeria school, shoot teachers

March 12, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

(Reuters) – Suspected Islamist gunmen on motorbikes stormed a primary school in Nigeria’s main northern city of Kano on Tuesday and opened fire on teachers, wounding four of them, police said. The attackers made teachers at Dan Maliki Primary School … read more »

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Nigeria says kills 20 Boko Haram militants

March 3, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

MAIDUGURI – Nigerian security forces killed 20 militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram in a firefight in the northeast on Sunday, a spokesman said. Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman for joint military and police forces in the northeastern state … read more »

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Nigeria Pursuing Link Between Al-Qaida, Boko Haram

October 3, 2011 by benim

Nigeria’s government says Islamic militants in northern states are linked to al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists in the Sahel and in Somalia. Definitively proving that link has brought more international attention to Nigerian terrorism, but may be overshadowing its domestic causes. Nigeria’s State … read more »

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