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1/9/2025 12:26:26 PM
Gunmen attempted to storm the presidential complex in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Wednesday, sparking a battle that left 18 attackers and one security personnel member dead, the government said.
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12/29/2024 6:16:48 PM
Chad voted Sunday in a general election the government says is a key step towards ending military rule, with turnout expected to be low after the opposition called for a boycott.
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9/3/2024 9:34:04 PM
At least 81 people died and several were missing after an attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State, local officials told AFP on Tuesday.
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8/1/2024 12:53:17 PM
A bomb exploded in a teahouse in a village in northeast Nigeria, killing 19 people and wounding two dozen more in the second major attack in a few weeks, security sources said on Thursday.
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7/9/2024 11:05:00 PM
Scores of Boko Haram jihadists and their relatives have surrendered since July to an African multinational force in Niger and Cameroon, the force said Tuesday.
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Africa
6/30/2024 10:09:26 AM
At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said.
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5/21/2024 2:41:43 PM
Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from a forest enclave and handed over to authorities, the army said.
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Africa
7/2/2023 10:35:12 PM
Five people have been killed and 11 others injured after suspected jihadists fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, two anti-jihadist militia commanders told AFP on Sunday.
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6/28/2023 5:19:38 PM
The United Nations said Wednesday it was "ringing the alarm" on the humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked northeast Nigeria, with surging numbers of people needing help.
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Africa
6/17/2023 10:17:37 AM
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have killed 11 farmers in northeast Nigeria, the latest attacks in the conflict-wracked region, local militias told AFP on Friday.
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Africa
6/4/2023 10:36:49 PM
Nigeria’s new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to make security a top priority of his administration. In his inaugural speech he promised, among other things, to provide security personnel with better training, equipment, pay and firepower.
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Africa
2/1/2023 8:07:08 PM
Nigerians will soon determine who their next president will be in a general election. Polling is due at the end of February and inauguration is scheduled for 29 May 2023.
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Africa
12/26/2022 1:48:38 PM
Boko Haram jihadists killed 17 herders and stole their cattle following clashes in the troubled northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, self-defence militia told AFP Monday.
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Africa
7/17/2022 10:50:36 PM
In recent times, security, or, more accurately, the lack of it, has been one of the most prominent items on the news agenda in Nigeria.
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Africa
4/28/2022 12:34:49 PM
When dozens of gunmen raided Abubakar Aliyu's village in central Nigeria two weeks ago, they stormed in on motorbikes, each carrying one or two attackers who opened fire and chased down residents.
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Africa
4/13/2022 12:01:24 AM
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday there would be no mercy for those behind the killings of more than a hundred people in a series of attacks in central Nigeria.
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Africa
11/10/2021 7:33:39 PM
Nearly 30 people have been killed across Nigeria's north in violent attacks in recent days targeting rural areas and the police, locals and authorities said Wednesday.
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9/4/2021 4:24:30 PM
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8/5/2021 3:39:00 PM
'Twenty-four troops were killed, several were wounded and others have scattered into the countryside,' the region's deputy prefect, Haki Djiddi, told AFP
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Africa
7/27/2021 8:13:36 PM
The attack took place near the border with Nigeria, where operations by the Islamist group have been on the rise
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