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The gunmen stormed Silimanti, Polo area of the town, at around 8.30 am on Thursday and fired gun shots at men working at a bakery, killing at least five people there, sources said. They also killed a water hawker and the customs officer at a separate
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Nigeria (AP) — The U.S. warned its citizens Wednesday that a radical Islamist sect may attack Nigeria's capital Abuja, including hotels frequented by foreigners, the second time it has advised such an assault is possible in the West African nation.
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Islamic Boko Haram extremists received funding from al-Qaida-linked groups as well as organizations based in Britain and Saudi Arabia, officials say. The Nigerian Tribune of Lagos reported the country's State Security Service had worked with local
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Theresa's Catholic church, the scene of a Christmas day bomb attack, just outside the capital Abuja, December 31, 2011. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency Saturday in parts of northern Nigeria affected by the Islamist
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The bombing at St Theresa's Catholic church in Madalla on Abuja's outskirts during a packed Christmas mass was the deadliest of a series of Christmas attacks on Nigerian churches and other targets by the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram. "As of just
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Islamist Sect Boko Haram Is Growing Threat 26 December 2011 The Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which claimed a wave of Christmas bombings that left at least 35 people dead, has carried out scores of attacks that have grown increasingly
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Several explosions ripped through Nigeria's troubled northeastern and predominantly Muslim city of Maiduguri on Friday, including a suicide bomb attack on military offices, the army said. Another one of the bombs went off outside the offices of the
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