World
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Africa
7/3/2021 7:05:14 PM
Boko Haram has gained a foothold in at least two villages, Bazoum said at the end of a three-day tour of the southeastern region that has been plagued by jihadist violence since 2015
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World
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Africa
6/28/2021 12:30:49 PM
A group of fighters from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to rivals the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) weeks after the former group's leader died.
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World
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Africa
6/6/2021 10:10:32 PM
Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in a fight against rival jihadist fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) according to audio AFP obtained from the group Sunday
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World
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Africa
5/29/2021 10:14:50 PM
Two gendarmes and a policeman died in a jihadist raid against the major town in southeast Niger, near the Nigeria border, local authorities said
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World
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Africa
5/22/2021 8:00:14 PM
Attahiru died as news emerged that Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist leader Abubakar Shekau had himself been seriously wounded or possibly killed after clashes with a rival Islamic State-allied faction
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World
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Africa
5/21/2021 5:43:22 PM
Shekau was seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to evade capture by the IS jihadists who surrounded him after a series of battles
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World
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Africa
5/20/2021 5:53:28 PM
Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country
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World
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Africa
4/18/2021 10:05:33 AM
The department has long warned Americans not to travel to Chad because of unrest and the presence of the jihadist Boko Haram group
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World
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Africa
3/2/2021 6:05:29 PM
Nigeria has seen several such attacks and kidnappings in recent years, the most notorious in 2014, when 276 girls were abducted by the jihadist rebels of Boko Haram in Borno state
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World
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Africa
2/21/2021 11:05:04 AM
Ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum is seen by many as the favourite after leading in the first round on 27 December with 39.3% of the vote. He is up against former President Mahamane Ousmane, who scored 17%
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World
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Africa
2/17/2021 9:44:04 PM
The gunmen chased the students across the school and shot one of them in the head as he tried to escape, the school's head prefect said
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World
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Africa
2/15/2021 4:27:48 PM
During the operations, Farouk Yahaya, commander of Operation said, one soldier was killed and four others wounded in an incident involving improvised explosive devices planted by Boko Haram militants.
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World
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Africa
1/26/2021 7:11:58 PM
Hopes were high after initial successes pushing back Islamist Boko Haram insurgents in 2015 and 2016, but with the rise of Islamic State's West African branch the military ceded many of its gains
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World
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Africa
1/17/2021 3:47:07 PM
Officials blamed the violence on Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a group that split from Boko Haram in 2016
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Egypt
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Politics
1/6/2021 7:53:00 PM
The observatory stated that the group intensified its operations in west Africa, especially in Nigeria in December
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Egypt
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Politics
12/26/2020 8:42:06 PM
Al-Azhar say terrorist groups have dedicated themselves to promoting a distorted image of religion, striking terror into the hearts of innocents
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World
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Africa
12/25/2020 3:08:23 PM
Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 11 people, burnt a church and seized a priest on Christmas Eve in Nigeria's restive northeast, local sources said
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World
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Africa
12/17/2020 10:53:00 PM
Schoolboys kidnapped in northern Nigeria were handed over to government security, the Katsina state governor said
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World
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Africa
12/17/2020 8:16:00 PM
In the more than six-minute-long video, the students' captors can be heard to tell one boy to repeat the kidnappers' demands that the government call off its troops and aircraft hunting for them
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World
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Africa
12/15/2020 9:09:08 AM
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