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1 week ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUYA, Nigeria (AP) — Un resurgimiento de los ataques de Boko Haram está sacudiendo el noreste de Nigeria, ya que este grupo extremista islámico ha invadido repetidamente puestos militares, colocado minas en carreteras y allanado comunidades civiles desde que comenzó el año, lo que genera temores de que regrese la inseguridad de la época en que Boko Haram estaba en auge a pesar de que las fuerzas armadas dicen lograr éxitos.
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1 week ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military outposts, mined roads with bombs, and raided civilian communities since the start of the year, raising fears of a possible return to peak Boko Haram-era insecurity despite the military’s claims of successes. Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.
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2 weeks ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing on Thursday, witnesses said Sunday, in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast this year. Abdulrahman Ibrahim survived Thursday’s attack on two villages in Baga in Borno State and participated in the burial of the dead.
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3 weeks ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
DIKWA, Nigeria (AP) — Under the dappled light of a thatched shelter, Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state. “Feeding is severely difficult,” said Bulama, 40, who was a farmer before Boko Haram militants swept through her village, forcing her to flee.
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2 months ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Elizabeth Felix stands in the middle of Maiduguri’s main market, taking in the bustling scene: traders setting up stalls, customers haggling over prices, the bright colors of stacked fabric and shoes, fresh produce blending with the rich aroma of dried fish. It’s a stark difference from just six months ago when the market had drowned under floodwater.
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