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Mar- 2021 -2 MarchAfrica
All 279 Kidnapped Nigerian Students Released: Governor
All 279 girls kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released and are on government premises, the local governor said Tuesday.
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Feb- 2021 -26 FebruaryAfrica
Cameroon Troops Raped 20 Women, Killed Man: HRW
Cameroonian soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, and killed a man in a raid last year in an English-speaking secessionist region, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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26 FebruaryAfrica
New Abduction at Nigeria School, Hundreds Feared Missing
Suspected armed bandits raided a school dormitory in northwestern Nigeria overnight, a teacher and parent said Friday, raising fears of another mass kidnapping in the region.
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24 FebruaryAfrica
Boko Haram Killed 16 in Nigeria’s Maiduguri Attack: Local Militia
Boko Haram jihadists attacked Nigeria's city of Maiduguri in the volatile northeast killing 16 people, including nine children who were playing football in a field, local militia said.
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24 FebruaryMiddle East
Nigerian Troops Reclaim Town Seized by Jihadists: Army
Nigerian soldiers backed by fighter jets on Tuesday recaptured a town in the restive northeast seized last week by jihadists after they overran a military base, the army said.
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5 FebruaryAfrica
Nigeria Troops Overrun ISWAP Jihadist Camps in Northeast
Nigerian troops backed by jets have taken control of several camps of IS-linked jihadists, with two senior commanders escaping after several other ranking militants were killed.
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4 FebruaryAfrica
Cameroon Army Killed 9 Civilians in Anglophone West: HRW
Human Rights Watch accused the Cameroon army of killing nine civilians, including a six-year-old girl, in a raid last month on a village in the troubled English-speaking west of the country.
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Jan- 2021 -18 JanuaryAfrica
Nigeria Army Retakes Military Base in Borno From ISWAP Jihadists
Nigerian troops regained control of a military base in the northeast hours after it was seized by jihadists, sources told AFP on Sunday.
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11 JanuaryAfrica
Cameroon Army Denies Civilian ‘Massacre’
Cameroon's army on Monday denied allegations from local media and aid groups that it had killed civilians during a raid in the country's anglophone Southwest region, saying the dead were "terrorists."
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8 JanuaryAfrica
Jihadist Attack Kills 13 in Northern Cameroon
Thirteen civilians, eight of them children, died Friday when a woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a jihadist attack on a village in northern Cameroon, a traditional chief and a police officer said.
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