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Africa news: Boko Haram shows changing al Qaeda threat

YoopyaMay 28, 2014July 29, 20230

(Reuters) – The kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls last month has sparked global outrage, launched an international manhunt and instantly turned an obscure

Nigeria: 2 bomb blasts in Nigeria kill at least 118

YoopyaMay 21, 2014September 7, 20230

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at

Africa: Israel sends experts to help hunt for Nigerian schoolgirls

YoopyaMay 20, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Israel has sent intelligence experts to Nigeria to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group Boko

Africa: Nigeria’s leader cancels trip to village of abducted 200 schoolgirls

YoopyaMay 16, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to the village from which more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Islamist rebel

Africa: Nigerian leader to visit village where young girls were being gripped

YoopyaMay 16, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday visit the northeastern village where more than 200 schoolgirls were seized a month ago by Islamist

Africa: Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners

YoopyaMay 12, 2014September 16, 20230

(Reuters) – The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last

Africa: Nigeria offers $300,000 reward for information on kidnapped girls

YoopyaMay 7, 2014July 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Nigerian police offered a 50 million naira ($300,000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who could give information leading to the rescue of more

Nigeria news: Nigeria’s Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped schoolgirls

YoopyaMay 6, 2014September 7, 20230

(Reuters) – The leader of Boko Haram on Monday threatened to sell more than 200 schoolgirls his Islamist militant group kidnapped in northeastern Nigeria last

Africa: Chibok abductions: Nigeria vows to find schoolgirls

YoopyaApr 25, 2014April 9, 20230

Nigeria’s government has vowed to do all it can to rescue some 190 girls abducted from their school last week, following a crisis meeting in

Africa: Nigerians mark Easter amid mourning and fear

YoopyaApr 21, 2014September 16, 20230

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — With little to celebrate, Nigerians marked Easter Sunday with heightened security against a spreading Islamic uprising, mourning the deaths of at