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2 months ago | 
modernghana.com | Aminu Abubakar |Jean-Michel CORNU |Jonathan Walter
Lack of military coordination and tension among countries in Africa's Lake Chad region are hindering efforts to end a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency, according to local officials and security sources. The region, comprising the four countries that surround Lake Chad -- Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria -- has been battling insurgency since 2009, after a spate of violent campaigns by the Boko Haram jihadist group in Nigeria's northeast spilled into its neighbours.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
therogersvillereview.com | Aminu Abubakar
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bhpioneer.com | Aminu Abubakar
Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative Muslim region of Nigeria. Bala was handed a 24-year sentence by a Kano high court in 2022 for online posts he wrote two years earlier disparaging Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and God, according to court proceedings seen by AFP. kAm%96 42D6 9:89=:89E65 E96 4@>A=6I :DDF6 @7 3=2DA96>J :? AC65@>:?2?E=J |FD=:> ?@CE96C?
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
greenevillesun.com | Aminu Abubakar
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
annistonstar.com | Aminu Abubakar
By Aminu ABUBAKAR Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative Muslim region of Nigeria. Bala was handed a 24-year sentence by a Kano high court in 2022 for online posts he wrote two years earlier disparaging Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and God, according to court proceedings seen by AFP.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Aminu Abubakar
Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative Muslim region of Nigeria. Bala was handed a 24-year sentence by a Kano high court in 2022 for online posts he wrote two years earlier disparaging Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and God, according to court proceedings seen by AFP.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
modernghana.com | Aminu Abubakar |Sophie Ramis
Authorities in northern Nigeria's largest city have begun evacuating more than 5,000 street children seen as a "security threat" and a growing concern as an economic crisis forces more to fend for themselves. Sharia police, the Hisbah, have carried out midnight raids on motor parks, markets and street corners in the regional capital, Kano, since the beginning of the year, evacuating children as they sleep.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
barrons.com | Aminu Abubakar
Text size Authorities in northern Nigeria’s largest city have begun evacuating more than 5,000 street children seen as a "security threat" and a growing concern as an economic crisis forces more to fend for themselves. Sharia police, the Hisbah, have carried out midnight raids on motor parks, markets and street corners in the regional capital, Kano, since the beginning of the year, evacuating children as they sleep.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
barrons.com | Aminu Abubakar
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
barrons.com | Aminu Abubakar
Zuwaira Muhammad sat beside her emaciated 10-month-old twins on a clinic bed in northern Nigeria, caring for them as they battled malnutrition and malaria. She will have her babies vaccinated if they regain their strength, but for many in Kano -- a hotbed of anti-vaccine sentiment -- the choice is not an obvious one.
