Before Boko Haram used to attack Nigeria, but now it's Nigeria attacking Boko Haram and Boko Haram are on the run.
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"I was surprised because we used to hear from the scholars, 'Haram, haram, haram,' but they never talked about the evidence," he said.
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"All those women who lived with Boko Haram are also Boko Haram soldiers," Ms. Ali said.
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Boko Haram is far from defeated in Nigeria Boko Haram is far from defeated in Nigeria Boko Haram was the deadliest terrorist organization in the world last year, killing more people than its affiliate, the Islamic State.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)The new leader of Boko Haram is the son of the group's founder, according to a Boko Haram insider.
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Nigeria: Many Boko Haram attacks against students The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has been blamed for many attacks against students in Nigeria.
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A new wave of attacks by Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa (a Boko Haram offshoot) has hit the Lake Chad Basin.
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The military offensive against Boko Haram has been largely successful, driving fighters deep into the forest and securing villages that Boko Haram once held.
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In related coverage, see "They Fled Boko Haram, Only to Be Raped by Nigeria's Security Forces" and Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them.
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November: Boko Haram overtakes ISIS as world's deadliest terror group More than 53,000 people fleeing Boko Haram attacks from six districts are sheltering under military protection.
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" One of the boys who had voluntarily joined Boko Haram came back to Chad because, he told me, "Boko Haram lied to us about the money.
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Boko Haram releases 21 Chibok girls, more than two years after their abduction Boko Haram releases 265 Chibok girls, more than two years after their abduction Boko Haram released 2000 of the Chibok schoolgirls Thursday morning amid ongoing negotiations between the terrorist group and the Nigerian government.
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Amnesty: Boko Haram escapees raped by Nigerian troops Boko Haram militants mainly inhabit areas in the northern states of Nigeria, specifically Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduna.
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But it has had trouble holding towns once liberated from Boko Haram control, and Boko Haram fighters have also taken the fight to neighboring countries like Niger.
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Boko Haram freed the girls in a prisoner exchange with the government Boko Haram freed the girls in a prisoner exchange with the government Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped three years ago in Nigeria by Boko Haram were reportedly freed by the Islamist militant group over the weekend.
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Fleeing Boko Haram Power's convoy was headed to the Minawao camp, home to tens of thousands of the 2.5 million people displaced by Boko Haram in the region.
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Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video circulated last month in which he seemed to suggest he was ailing and Boko Haram was losing its effectiveness.
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Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to ISIS, but if ISIS is defeated in the Levant, that does not mean the end of Boko Haram or its splinter groups.
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" An imam in Yola, a north-eastern Nigerian town hit by Boko Haram, says, "Even Muslims think [the burqa] is an extremist thing, or it's linked to Boko Haram.
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After years of brutal rampages by the Boko Haram militants, some Nigerians fear that anyone who has spent time with the group may have become a Boko Haram sympathizer.
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They fled their homes, either at 5am or at 11pm because Boko Haram was already there and they had to escape, or Boko Haram was arriving into their village or town.
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Yakubu Kabu, whose daughter Dorcas was filmed speaking in a previous Boko Haram video, pleaded with the Nigerian government to negotiate with Boko Haram to free his daughter and the others.
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Women who joined Boko Haram were permitted to learn to assemble weapons, to become combatants, to own slaves and even have a say in which Boko Haram member to marry, she said.
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Read more: Boko Haram has kidnapped more than 1,000 children in Nigeria Last month, the army said it had rescued 148 hostages, most of them women and children, from Boko Haram militants.
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"When we said that Boko Haram is still in this place some people sit in Abuja and claim that there is no more Boko Haram, but see what has happen," Kwagh said.
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In the past, women rescued from Boko Haram have said they were raped repeatedly, with some reporting that they thought they were being impregnated to create a new generation of Boko Haram fighters.
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Soldiers have been taking back areas that were under Boko Haram control, and the military's victories have lifted the spirits of Nigerians who are daring to talk about a post-Boko Haram life.
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"Nigeria has declared Boko Haram technically defeated many times but each time they say this, Boko Haram gives a response and each time it's the people in that area that suffer," Sani said.
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Boko Haram does not consider all Muslims supporters and allies.
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Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses.
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Boko Haram fighters are stationed a couple of miles away.
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In 2017, victory was announced over Boko Haram in Nigeria.
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Nigeria's new president is determined to crush Boko Haram militarily.
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The news is mostly about corruption, Boko Haram, or poverty.
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To be fair, it is besieged by Boko Haram insurgents.
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Cameroon has become a major target for Boko Haram attacks.
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A lot of people say that Boko Haram is weakened.
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Yusuf's deputy, Abubakar Shekau, became the leader of Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram quadrupled its body count over the same period.
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Mr. Yusuf's cultlike teachings formed the genesis of Boko Haram.
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Evidence of a weakened Boko Haram had begun to emerge.
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Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last year.
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The army said that Boko Haram carried out the attack.
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And Boko Haram has displaced many: Nearly 2.5 million. 5.
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Boko Haram had struck a satellite village just days before.
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Even elephants are affected by the Boko Haram food crisis.
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The government released some imprisoned Boko Haram commanders in exchange.
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Boko Haram is still plaguing Maiduguri, where their movement began.
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Nigeria's war with Boko Haram is in its ninth year.
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A multinational force combating Boko Haram is based in Chad.
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This was a matter between the government and Boko Haram.
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Mr. Buhari vowed to escalate the campaign against Boko Haram.
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The village was attacked by Boko Haram militants in February.
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The fight against Boko Haram has particularly vexed the president.
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Not just ISIS: Boko Haram, other terror groups jockey for power Sources believe the timing of this new video is no coincidence as it comes on the back of a leadership crisis within Boko Haram.
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"One of the girls we feature in the film lost her leg in a government bomb attack on a Boko Haram site," Edwards, the executive producer of "Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram," told Hill.
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It's about stopping extremism and radicalization in northern Nigeria and in the world at large, because it is only when we stop Boko Haram that Boko Haram will be incapable of kidnapping in the future.
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In 2015, Nigeria's Boko Haram became the world's deadliest terror group.
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Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed 20,000 people and displaced 2.5
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He said a Nigerian army operation against Boko Haram would continue.
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Here, the label of Boko Haram wife can carry serious consequences.
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She made it to Minawao without getting caught by Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram in the Hausa language means "Western Education is Forbidden".
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By some measures, Boko Haram is the world's deadliest terrorist group.
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The fight against Boko Haram is no excuse to imprison children.
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Both are studying a Ph.D. with a focus on Boko Haram.
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Meanwhile Boko Haram and its offshoots were left to gather strength.
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Boko Haram recruits child soldiers and uses schoolgirls as suicide bombers.
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Galang's daughter was among those taken by Boko Haram in 2014.
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Boko Haram has previously used female suicide bombers in its attacks.
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Bombings, kidnappings Boko Haram aims to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
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What has Boko Haram gained from its affiliation with Islamic State?
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Today, Boko Haram is no longer occupying large parts of Nigeria.
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Government officials said the man was really a Boko Haram fighter.
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Adherents of Boko Haram in Nigeria also see Sufism as apostasy.
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Even though Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
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This aided the Nigerian government in its campaign against Boko Haram.
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He hopes they will follow her lead in denouncing Boko Haram.
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Hawwa was held by Boko Haram for more than a year.
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Her information led to a major raid on Boko Haram fighters.
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Since that day," she says, "I stopped everything that was haram.
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Many captives of Boko Haram, even children, were forced to fight.
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Boko Haram fighters descended on Dapchi in the evening of Feb.
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Boko Haram was not suspected of being behind the school kidnapping.
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"Some people see me as part of Boko Haram," she said.
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Boko Haram fed them a plate of rice once a day.
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Last October, Boko Haram released 21 other girls to the government.
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"The government respects Boko Haram more than us," Mr. Boh said.
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We saw Boko Haram gunmen in military uniform and wearing turbans.
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Boko Haram released all the girls who professed to embrace Islam.
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Boko Haram has already attacked the rebuilt town since residents returned.
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Thousands more women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram.
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Far from being crushed, Boko Haram has recently been gaining strength.
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Related: 'Boko Haram Is a Devil': Embedded with Troops in Nigeria's Ongoing Offensive Hawwa said some of the girls had been "initiated" into Boko Haram, by converting to Islam and marrying militants, with many now having children.
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But three years ago, jihadists from Boko Haram attacked and took everything.
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The big question, of course, is how do you defeat Boko Haram?
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's claim to have "crushed" Boko Haram appears optimistic.
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Nigeria is battling Boko Haram on the ground and with air strikes.
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Mrs Muhammad fled Boko Haram with her four children three years ago.
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"Boko Haram has been defeated," says Tukur Buratai, Nigeria's top-ranking general.
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Government troops block them, and Boko Haram is still on the prowl.
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Ating began crowdsourcing money for survivors of Boko Haram on social media.
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Recently, Chad executed 10 Boko Haram members convicted of acts of terrorism.
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Adding to the pressure on Lagos, Boko Haram is driving people south.
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They restricted figurative painting everywhere calling it Haram [forbidden by Islamic law].
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The military said the man was actually a suspected Boko Haram fighter.
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The next month, around sixty Boko Haram members attacked a police station.
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Boko Haram has affected nearly all of her subjects in some way.
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Especially students in schools that have already been attacked by Boko Haram?
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They said, "boko is haram" (loosely translated as Western education is forbidden).
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The battle against Boko Haram spans the borders of four struggling countries.
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The first is a migrant whose family was killed by Boko Haram.
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Nigeria's government likes to say that Boko Haram has been "technically defeated".
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For four months last year, her village was occupied by Boko Haram.
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On the opposite side of the country, Boko Haram is still raging.
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The new title suggested that perhaps he was running Boko Haram now.
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Nigeria is battling a decadelong Boko Haram insurgency in the country's northeast.
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The city of Bama was captured by Boko Haram in September 2014.
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Understanding the women's true leanings toward Boko Haram is a complicated endeavor.
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Boko Haram fighters have carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings.
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Mariam Yaya was in Kerawa when Boko Haram came for the livestock.
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Then he escaped again, in a mass breakout mounted by Boko Haram.
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Ms. Wolfe Haram, a retired food editor, has two daughters, not three.
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And I have interviewed women whom Boko Haram trained as suicide bombers.
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But Boko Haram is increasingly raiding villages for food rather than hostages.
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He's 60 and has overseen the Haram for the past 38 years.
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Cameroon's communications minister compared secessionists to the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram.
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She knows that many people suspect she is a Boko Haram collaborator.
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Boko Haram often attacks vehicles, and the roads are considered extremely dangerous.
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But the president says his administration has recorded successes against Boko Haram.
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But Donald Trump's tone on Boko Haram has been tepid at best.
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Boko Haram has proven itself to be nearly as dangerous as ISIS.
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Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) split from Boko Haram in 2016.
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Soldiers have pushed into forests that have long hidden Boko Haram fighters.
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But the government is known for exaggerating its successes against Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram has regularly attacked such camps with gunmen and suicide bombers.
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He had lost his entire family, he told me, to Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram insurgents have waged a decade-long war in northern Nigeria.
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So too is Nigeria, which has been victimized by Boko Haram violence.
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Boko Haram has kidnapped more than 1,000 children in Nigeria since 2013.
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Boko Haram targets schools because it is virulently against Western-style education.
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In the north, the violent Boko Haram extremist group isn't yet vanquished.
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By 22019, Boko Haram was the deadliest terrorist group in the world.
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It achieved a lot and Boko Haram is now being fought squarely.
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Boko Haram is gaining ground, launching sophisticated attacks on weary, underequipped soldiers.
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In 2015, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari pledged to finish off Boko Haram.
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ISWA protects locals from Boko Haram, something Nigeria's army cannot always do.
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The broadcast was aired on Sunday shortly before the presidency said Buhari was travelling to the northeastern city of Maiduguri, epicentre of the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency, to celebrate the independence anniversary with soldiers fighting Boko Haram.
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Larsen spent six weeks embedded with the Nigerian army on the front lines of the fight against Boko Haram, and interviewed the president of Nigeria, a Boko Haram commander, and one of the group's 16-year-old female victims.
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Mr. Buhari has claimed for months that Boko Haram has been defeated, and this month he reveled in the release of 21 of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped from a school by Boko Haram more than two years ago.
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Lamidi Oyebayo Adeosun, the Nigerian commander of the regional group of African countries fighting Boko Haram in the Lake Chad area, said military officials were still trying to learn more about relations between Boko Haram and the Islamic State.
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Since then the two factions of Boko Haram have fought largely separate insurgencies.
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Now Boko Haram, which is much smaller than the IMN, torments the state.
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Terror group Boko Haram was also mounting a terrible war in Nigeria's northeast.
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It was the deadliest assault in Niger by Boko Haram since April 2015.
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But if they can take care of Boko Haram, it's a pertinent question.
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Islamist Boko Haram militants are fighting for a separate caliphate in the northeast.
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Borno is at the center of the fight against Boko Haram and ISWA.
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Further south, Niger also faces threats from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram fighters were staging suicide bombings and other attacks from the camps.
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Some Nigerians have criticized Mr. Buhari for boasting of having defeated Boko Haram.
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Nigeria abducted girls Remember the 300 girls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014?
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Boko Haram has recruited child soldiers and reportedly uses children as suicide bombers.
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The attack by Boko Haram militants Saturday targeted mourners in the Nganzai district.
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In exchange for the girls' release, the government freed five Boko Haram commanders.
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For now, the military says Boko Haram is low on ammunition and food.
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Boko Haram has burned down homes, destroyed livelihoods and killed thousands of people.
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Its activities have drawn comparisons with the start of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
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There was no immediate confirmation that Boko Haram was behind the latest attacks.
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It said soldiers were continuing to pursue Boko Haram fighters in the area.
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Troops were in "aggressive pursuit" of the fleeing Boko Haram fighters, it said.
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Boko Haram militants live primarily in the northern states of Nigeria, including Borno.
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No group claimed responsibility, but Boko Haram militants have carried out similar attacks.
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Boko Haram has been attacking several targets in Nigeria over the last week.
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World News: Boko Haram burned homes with families inside, killing dozens in Nigeria.
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A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber killed two people in Cameroon on Sunday.
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Boko Haram has escalated its deadly attacks on the military in the Northeast.
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Buhari has faced health struggles, economic headwinds and a relentless Boko Haram insurgency.
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A second military source said Boko Haram stopped three vehicles on the road.
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When mother and baby go out, "everyone calls him Boko Haram son," Mrs.
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Throughout the region, word of divisions within Boko Haram and defections has spread.
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Mr. Barnawi is apparently leading an Islamic State-endorsed faction of Boko Haram.
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In early 2015, Boko Haram controlled an area about the size of Belgium.
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He's still haunted by the afternoon Boko Haram when came to his village.
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Sambisa stronghold Chibok is in northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram is strongest.
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The result is that Boko Haram fighters "are hungry" too, said Brig. Gen.
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But cracks are starting to show in the Boko Haram suicide-training system.
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The camps have principally been serving those fleeing the militant group Boko Haram.
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Even as his family has been displaced by the war against Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram was responsible for 6,664 deaths in 2014, while ISIS killed 6,073.
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Despite that, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared repeatedly to have defeated Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram had declared itself a caliphate and pledged its alliance to ISIS.
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Nigerian fighter jets hunting for Boko Haram militants mistakenly bombed a refugee camp.
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Nigeria was battling Boko Haram, oil theft and violent clashes across the country.
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A handful of women who hunt have also joined the Boko Haram fight.
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Unable to defeat Boko Haram unilaterally, Buhari publically welcomed assistance from neighboring countries.
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As ideological support for Boko Haram continues to wane, so too does recruitment.
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But the aftermath of the ravaging by Boko Haram is far more complicated.
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"We could knock off all the ISIL and Boko Haram this afternoon," Gen.
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" Muslim's refer to the location as Haram al-Sharif, which means "Noble Sanctuary.
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She was arrested in 2014 while escaping Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram enclave.
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After all, she was the one who handed the girl to Boko Haram.
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Scores of Nigerian girls have been sent on suicide missions by Boko Haram.
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The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram is notorious for its use of rape.
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If someone is Boko Haram we should clear them off, off the land.
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The terrorist group Boko Haram is responsible for thousands of deaths in Nigeria.
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READ: In photos: Life after Boko Haram The wait continues April 14 marks two years since nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from their school dormitory in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, sparking off the global "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.
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Related: The First Chibok Girl Kidnapped by Boko Haram Has Been 'Found' Alive A video released by Boko Haram purports to show some of the missing girls who were kidnapped by militants in northern Nigeria more than two years ago.
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Raids by Boko Haram, the Islamic fundamentalist militia — including the kidnapping of 200 schoolgirls in Chibok two years ago — as well as fighting between Boko Haram and the Nigerian Army have made many areas off limits for vaccinators and surveillance specialists.
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The fatwa will decree the spreading of slander and lies as haram, or forbidden.
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The state of Borno is where Boko Haram began their insurgency seven years ago.
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The Nigerian military ramped up its campaign against Boko Haram in the last year.
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Boko Haram has intensified its attacks on the army in the past few months.
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"We first became friends because we all had Boko Haram in common," Mamman said.
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" Spyra said "in some cases, they escaped during bombardment of Boko Haram-held villages.
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Officials have accused Boko Haram of having married off the girls to its followers.
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"It was just because they want to run away from Boko Haram," Fati says.
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Boko Haram killed 14 people in bombings and shootings in Maiduguri on June 7.
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But she loses everything else when she is abducted and brutalised by Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram terrorists are reported to use it so they can carry on fighting.
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Jakana residents said the military was screening the population for members of Boko Haram.
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Since taking office, President Muhammadu Buhari has made destroying Boko Haram a chief imperative.
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"To contain Boko Haram, working together is a priority," General Rodriguez told his visitor.
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Two sources close to the negotiations also said no Boko Haram prisoners were released.
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Boko Haram's uprising Chibok is in northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram is strongest.
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Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls that night, threatening to sell them as slaves.
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Since 2009, Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in the region, killing thousands of people.
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Some analysts say that Boko Haram may be using captives to carry out bombings.
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Northern parts have been affected by the Boko Haram insurgency spilling over from Nigeria.
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Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's president, came to power in 2015 promising to defeat Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram militants have inhabited the northern states of Nigeria for the past decade.
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No such direct U.S. intervention is currently being contemplated against Boko Haram, officials say.
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There have been periodic reports of cooperation between Boko Haram and ISIL's Libyan branch.
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As Boko Haram retreats, a partially armed militia is being left in its wake.
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There was a global outcry and threats by Boko Haram to sell the girls.
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This time it happened in a Nigerian village at the hands of Boko Haram.
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Survivors said Boko Haram entered the village firing indiscriminately, setting fires and detonating bombs.
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Most say they are fleeing Boko Haram but officials describe many as economic migrants.
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The statement said "many" Boko Haram fighters had been killed, without giving a number.
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What do you make of President Buhari's claim that Boko Haram has been defeated?
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The announcement signals more than a struggle for leadership: Boko Haram has now split.
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An attack by Boko Haram left scores of people dead in Nigeria on Saturday.
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Nigeria's government has said since December 2015 that Boko Haram has been "technically defeated".
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The fatwa will decree the spreading of slander and lies as haram, or forbidden.
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Trying to appeal to her faith, they told her that basketball was haram —forbidden.
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The army there says it has rescued more than 1,000 captives of Boko Haram.
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Women's susceptibility is one of the roots of Nigeria's difficulty in fighting Boko Haram.
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Nigeria is already fighting one war, against Boko Haram jihadists in the north-east.
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Getting the world to focus on the Boko Haram crisis will not be easy.
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Boko Haram briefly overran Mubi in 2014 before it was liberated by Nigerian soldiers.
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"I figured forgive and forget, and was just staying with Boko Haram," she said.
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He was living just 30 miles from Sambisa forest — a known Boko Haram hideout.
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"They know where we have the Achilles' heel," Mr. Bakary said of Boko Haram.
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Aisha was 15 when a Boko Haram fighter strapped a suicide bomb to her.
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Boko Haram held a large swath of territory in northeast Nigeria in late 2014.
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The war with Boko Haram, which has displaced millions, is entering its ninth year.
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Hundreds of women in Nigeria have been recruited by Boko Haram as suicide bombers.
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While Mustapha had been in the bush, Boko Haram continued to fight for territory.
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Amnesty said soldiers have burned villages in operations to flush out Boko Haram members.
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Nigeria celebrated the release of 82 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram three years ago.
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Yet the government found leverage, Mr. Sani said: Boko Haram wanted its commanders back.
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Buhari swept to power on a promise to tackle the scourge of Boko Haram.
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" The Nigerian government, according to intelligence reports, is "poorly equipped to fight Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram and its splinter groups are slowly destablizing a region on their own.
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Point out the Boko Haram members among you, soldiers told the residents, witnesses recounted.
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Four years ago this month, dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram.
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Prisoners of Boko Haram, Then Prisoners of Fame Bring back our girls, they said.
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Diplomatic and military support from regional forces reversed territorial advances made by Boko Haram.
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Aisha also revealed the conditions they were kept in at the Boko Haram camp.
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Boko Haram has repeatedly belied assertions by Nigeria's leaders that it has been crushed.
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"He told me his daughter had also been captured by Boko Haram," she said.
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Leah was among a group of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago.
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Boko Haram freed the other schoolgirls after government negotiations, but Sharibu was kept behind.
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In public comments, senior U.S. officials have said they are closely watching for any increased threat to Americans from Boko Haram and any confirmation of media reports of deepening ties with IS. Despite suffering a series of setbacks, Boko Haram remains lethal.
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In the 10-minute recording uploaded to YouTube Wednesday night, the Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, referred to what appeared to be a split in Boko Haram over whether Muslims who live among nonbelievers are good Muslims whose lives deserve to be spared.
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On Friday, the military suspended the operations of Unicef in the areas most affected by Boko Haram, saying that the organization trains and deploys spies to help Boko Haram because it offered programs to help spot human rights abuses by the military.
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"We discussed the monstrous threat posed by Boko Haram and we agreed, and he was very forceful on this point, that the military response alone could not succeed in defeating Boko Haram in the long-term," she said of her meeting with Biya.
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A Nigerian in the United States cannot be enslaved by the Islamists of Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram militants have also targeted Kaduna, although recently the army has pushed them back.
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Last year, Boko Haram switched its allegiance to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
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Mistakenly believing that a gathering of Boko Haram terrorists was in Borno, Nigerian Maj. Gen.
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The government and military have repeatedly said Boko Haram is on the verge of defeat.
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Boko Haram Boko Haram's many crimes against young girls don't end with kidnapping and rape.
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It was sent by Boko Haram as "proof of life" in negotiations with the government.
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The road below extends toward Maiduguri, Borno State's capital and the birthplace of Boko Haram.
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The Boko Haram of the past would not have stood around lecturing and answering questions.
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Boko Haram overtakes ISIS as world's deadliest terror group Borno governor: Military turning tide Gov.
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The Nigerian military has retaken much of the territory lost to the Boko Haram jihadists.
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Many people worry God will be angry because so much is haram (forbidden), she says.
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He was particularly critical over Clinton's handling of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria.
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This is the region where Cameroonian soldiers are fighting the jihadist group Boko Haram. pic.twitter.
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Chukwu said two of the blasts happened at camps for people displaced by Boko Haram.
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Cameroon's army said on Friday it killed 92 Boko Haram members during a military operation.
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Buhari said the attack showed Boko Haram was "godless, brutish, and utterly to be despised".
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Boko Haram has long had links with ISIS, pledging allegiance to the group in March.
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Boko Haram, which opposes western education, wants to set up an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria.
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An offshoot of Boko Haram, for example, is building a proto-caliphate in northern Nigeria.
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Mr Macron warned of growing ties between jihadist groups in the Sahel and Boko Haram.
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Earlier this month, ISIS introduced a new Boko Haram leader named Abu Musab al-Barnawi.
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The video of some of the missing Chibok girls was released yesterday by Boko Haram.
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Nigeria's government and military have repeatedly said Boko Haram is on the verge of defeat.
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Even though Boko Haram is an al Qaeda affiliate, it has pledged allegiance to ISIS.
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The terrorist group Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of women and young girls in Africa.
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Boko Haram, which opposes Western education, wants to set up an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria.
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Nigeria has faced violence within its borders, including from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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Chukwu said two of the blasts happened at camps for people displaced by Boko Haram.
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IN AUGUST 2500 Boko Haram fighters surged through Madagali, an area in north-east Nigeria.
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Borno, the birthplace of Boko Haram, has been the state worst hit by Islamist insurgents.
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As a result, Boko Haram remains among the least understood terrorist organizations in the world.
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Boko Haram has not been defeated, whether militarily or politically, and that much is apparent.
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Under Mr. Buhari, Nigeria has cooperated more with Chad and Niger to fight Boko Haram.
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Something must change if Nigeria is to adequately address the problem posed by Boko Haram.
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A team of behavioral psychologists is working to deradicalize and rehabilitate detained Boko Haram members.
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She apparently was taken by Boko Haram at a later date, from her hometown, Madagali.
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On January 3, 2015, Boko Haram returned to Baga and attacked a local military base.
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During the next four days, Boko Haram slaughtered civilians in Baga and the surrounding villages.
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He was much more afraid of the uniformed soldiers than he was of Boko Haram.
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Also Wednesday, a House Foreign Affairs subpanel will hear from outside experts about Boko Haram.
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BOKO HARAM has used more female suicide-bombers than any other terrorist group in history.
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In April 2014, Boko Haram militants raided a Chibok school while girls were taking exams.
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Boko Haram typically mounts suicide attacks in crowded public places such as mosques and markets.
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Boko Haram is thought to have killed around 15,000 people, according to U.S. military figures.
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Boko Haram has long sent suicide bombers to religious gatherings and markets in Muslim areas.
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"They need capacity, capability, night vision goggles, to take this to Boko Haram," Smith said.
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The region has suffered several similar attacks in recent years from jihadist group Boko Haram.
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She was taken under a shady tree for questions to determine her Boko Haram leanings.
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The state governor, who is operating the detention center, considers them all Boko Haram supporters.
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Conflict with Boko Haram is the primary cause for near-famine conditions in northeast Nigeria.
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Families often reject the unmarried young women who come back pregnant with Boko Haram babies.
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Critics called her choice to compete in the pageant "haram," meaning forbidden by Islamic law.
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Niger contributes to the multinational force set up to fight Boko Haram in the region.
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The US military believes Boko Haram fields approximately 1,500 and ISIS West Africa approximately 3,500.
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Ms. Mohammed said she arrived at the Boko Haram camp in a daze in 2012.
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Boko Haram had murdered her husband in front of her after he criticized the group.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group, defeated time and again.
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Boko Haram has waged a six-year campaign for an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria.
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Yet Mr. Buhari has baffled the nation by repeatedly saying Boko Haram has been defeated.
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This offensive didn't "defeat" Boko Haram as a group, as Buhari falsely claimed in December.
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The New York Times met and photographed dozens of the students abducted by Boko Haram.
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Other officials could not confirm the death toll but blamed Boko Haram for the blast.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: What do you know about Boko Haram?
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It would be unconscionable to allow people who survived Boko Haram to die of starvation.
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Boko Haram has routinely stolen herds of cattle and raided markets to feed its ranks.
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Food prices have soared even in major cities far from areas where Boko Haram operates.
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Security is often a concern in Maiduguri, a frequent target of terror group Boko Haram.
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Residents acknowledge that Boko Haram had recruited fighters from the tiny villages in the area.
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One-hundred three of the girls have been freed in two swaps with Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram militants have been fighting for more than a decade in Nigeria's north east.
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And the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in 2014 by Boko Haram jihadists sparked global outcry.
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Pork is haram in Saudi Arabia, so there were no pork products on the menu.
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Just weeks ago, Boko Haram ambushed soldiers along this very highway, killing seven of them.
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Incidentally, the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, is said to hail from Yobe State.
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There has been important progress in fighting Boko Haram since the height of their attacks.
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Now, anyone spotted riding a motorbike is presumed to be a member of Boko Haram.
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The military has largely banned the fish trade, fearing Boko Haram was profiting from it.
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Buhari told CNN on Wednesday his government was doing its best to fight Boko Haram.
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"I took them both and ran," said Aisha, who herself was fleeing Boko Haram captivity.
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In April of that year, Boko Haram garnered worldwide attention for kidnapping 276 Christian schoolgirls.
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Boko Haram has killed more than 1,500 civilians in northern Cameroon since 2014, Amnesty said.
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I think my campaign is not only about the girls, it's about stopping Boko Haram.
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Attacks carried out by criminal organizations and by Boko Haram have been on the rise.
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Other troubling videos have surfaced showing soldiers deployed to the Boko Haram battlefield committing abuses.
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But Mr. Buhari hasn't succeeded in ending corruption, improving the economy or defeating Boko Haram.
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The incident drew attention to another of Mr. Buhari's 2015 pledges: to destroy Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram has long had links with ISIS, pledging allegiance to the group in 2015.
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Saturday, Boko Haram had already sent a chilling reminder that it is far from defeated.
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"Most of the weapons that Boko Haram are using [...] are from Libya's axis," he said.
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While a part of Boko Haram has claimed allegiance to Islamic State, the evidence of practical links to the jihadists' operations in Libya is thin: a few Nigerian fighters (not necessarily from Boko Haram) have turned up in Libya, but that is about it.
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Here are 10 key facts about Boko Haram and the Dapchi abductions: Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged an insurgency to carve out an Islamic state in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad that has killed at least 20,000 people and displaced more than 193 million.
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The insider said there was a split in the ranks of the Boko Haram terror group three months ago, which led to Barnawi, known as Habib Yusuf within the group, to leave the Sambisa forest where Boko Haram are believed to be hiding out.
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Boko Haram seeks to overthrow the Nigerian government and has declared areas it controls a caliphate.
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Because Boko Haram attacks often target markets, people living in northeast Nigeria have begun avoiding them.
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And of course, again, it's the fact that the Nigerian military couldn't deal with Boko Haram.
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The security source said the assailants were believed to belong to Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram.
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When Boko Haram started raiding the border towns, Nigerians ran here, desperate for food and safety.
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"There is no more halal and haram," he added, referring to religiously permitted and prohibited foods.
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Boko Haram has been driven from nearly two dozen strongholds where it had set up camp.
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For the first time, he offered to negotiate with leaders of Boko Haram for their release.
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On the line, a government adviser told him "to keep an eye out" for Boko Haram.
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There are more than 240,000 displaced people in Diffa who've fled sporadic attacks by Boko Haram.
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Radio Fresh was declared haram, raided, closed, had all its equipment seized, but kept bouncing back.
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Boko Haram seized Bama in September 2014 in a deadly raid that forced thousands to flee.
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This state is where the militant group Boko Haram is based and has challenged immunization efforts.
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In northern Nigeria, where polygamy is rife, Boko Haram still arranges cheap marriages for its recruits.
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U.S. officials acknowledge their intelligence about the internal structure and leadership of Boko Haram is imperfect.
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We are outraged at the crimes of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and other terrorist groups.
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"Boko Haram has shattered demographic stereotypes as to what a suicide bomber looks like," says Warner.
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The Boko Haram militants opened fire on Dalori village near Maiduguri, in Nigeria's northern Borno state.
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On Saturday, militants from Boko Haram riding motorcycles at night killed 65 people in a raid.
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But before the massive release on Saturday, 85033 were still said to be with Boko Haram.
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There is a link between the terrorism in Libya and with Boko Haram in the south.
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The authorities frequently arrest anyone, including journalists, who they think might have contacts in Boko Haram.
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The United States already supports a regional task force against the Nigeria-based group Boko Haram.
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A group of Muslim clerics in Pakistan recently declared that it was haram to persecute them.
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However, the Konduga district where it took place is a known flashpoint for Boko Haram attacks.
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The strategy also would address the crushing humanitarian and education crises created by Boko Haram. Sen.
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The IS branch in northern Nigeria, which split from Boko Haram, is becoming steadily more powerful.
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Starting early, girls need to learn about Boko Haram and how they can resist their tactics.
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Some of the girls were freed last year following negotiations between the government and Boko Haram.
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Many of them had received weapons training from Boko Haram, and some had carried out attacks.
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Then they call their friends in Boko Haram and tell them, 'We're O.K. We have food.
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Maiduguri Journal MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Her hometown, the birthplace of Boko Haram, is filled with sad stories.
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Thousands of parents whose children have been taken by Boko Haram never see their children again.
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For the past several years, Boko Haram had sought to establish a caliphate in northeastern Nigeria.
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This year, hundreds of Boudouma people who were living with Boko Haram have returned to Chad.
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Hussaina Jidda, 26, ran away from her village of Madagali in February when Boko Haram came.
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Even though Boko Haram, by some measures, has been far more deadly than the Islamic State.
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"We have a problem: we have Boko Haram, a terrorist group that's very active," Inhoffe said.
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According to The Guardian, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly visited those taken to Al-Haram hospital.
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But the area where Boko Haram operates in Africa is a different, and mostly Muslim, venue.
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When Boko Haram invades, it typically kills much of the population and takes the rest hostage.
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Some are bitter that women who support Boko Haram are getting better treatment, aid workers said.
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The vast majority of the victims of ISIS, Boko Haram, Hezbollah and al Qaeda are Muslims.
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On Tuesday, Nigeria's air force said it had killed some senior Boko Haram militants in raids.
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MORA, Cameroon — At first, the attack had all the hallmarks of a typical Boko Haram assault.
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Military efforts have freed thousands of hostages of Boko Haram, most of them women and children.
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Police say the men are among 22 suspected Boko Haram members who were arrested following investigations.
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Interviewing a woman bomber would offer a new way to look at Boko Haram, Searcey believed.
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In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from another northern secondary school, in Chibok.
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DJ Haram and Bearcat also spoke out against the police and security presence over the weekend.
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In the multinational battle against the terrorist group Boko Haram, Chad's army is a feared force.
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The Nigerian military has made gains fighting Boko Haram, hunting out militants from forest hide-outs.
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Now, he said, they realize Boko Haram must have been waiting to exploit the reduced security.
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It has battled Islamic terrorists in the region, including offshoots of Al Qaeda and Boko Haram.
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Around three million displaced people have fled the conflict between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram.
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"There were suspicious persons who sold cattle which they had bought from Boko Haram," he said.
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Parents have accused Boko Haram of having married off some of the girls against their will.
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Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe on Monday evening.
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Boko Haram also said it seized a "large quantity of weapons and ammunition" during the attack.
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Agim accused the human rights organization of publishing reports that frustrate the fight against Boko Haram.
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In its battle against the terrorist group Boko Haram, the Nigerian military has made great strides.
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She fainted more than once in the vehicle that drove her to the Boko Haram camp.
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Boko Haram launches frequent cross-border raids in its bid to carve out an Islamic caliphate.
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The story of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014 ricocheted around the world.
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Many female captives of Boko Haram have been forced into being sex slaves and suicide bombers.
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It is there that ISWA is making its mark, offering people protection, particularly from Boko Haram.
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It was not immediately clear whether the attackers were affiliated with Boko Haram or Islamic State.
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Read more: 800,000 Nigerian kids displaced by Boko Haram violence Power struggle It is unclear when the video was shot, but it appears to be done in a similar style to a video obtained by CNN in April 2016 and other previously released Boko Haram videos.
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"Several months ago, about half of Boko Haram broke off to a separate group because they were not happy with the amount of buy-in, if you will, from Boko Haram into the ISIL brand," Waldhauser said at his nomination hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Boko Haram overtakes ISIS as world's deadliest terror group Mohamed, who is the national security adviser to Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, said that Boko Haram members were trained in the country between 2010 and 2012 in south central Somalia, areas previously controlled by Al-Shabaab.
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Hadiza Bala Usman, a leader of a group that campaigns for the girls' release, said Ms. Ali had told her that at least six of her classmates died while being held by Boko Haram, some in childbirth and others in clashes between Boko Haram and the military.
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Read more: Boko Haram is using children as human bombs in Nigeria Once the world's deadliest militant group, Boko Haram has terrorized Nigeria and surrounding countries for nearly a decade, displacing millions from their homes, abducting children, and killing at least 37,224 people along the way.
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Boko Haram Returns Dozens of Schoolgirls Kidnapped in Nigeria The unexpected return of the girls may turn out to be a major propaganda coup for Boko Haram, although some girls are still missing, and the group warned the girls to never go back to school again.
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Here are 10 key facts about the Chibok schoolgirls and the Islamist militant group Boko Haram: Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged an insurgency to carve out an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria that has killed at least 15,000 people and displaced more than two million.
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Read more: Boko Haram is using children as human bombs in Nigeria Once the world's deadliest militant group, Boko Haram has terrorized Nigeria and surrounding countries for nearly a decade, displacing millions from their homes, abducting children, and killing at least 20,000 people along the way.
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But Hausa may be of little use in Borno state, where the insurgency of Boko Haram rages.
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Jihadists from Boko Haram, a Nigerian group, kidnapped 37 women and killed another nine people in Niger.
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Analysts warn that the war against Boko Haram may have shifted, but it is far from over.
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Telephone and electricity wires remain torn down, more than two years after the military evicted Boko Haram.
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DJ Haram, today shared her uproarious soundtrack for NYC fashion label Chromat's Fall/Winter 2017 runway show.
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"The girls said: 'We are those that Boko Haram kidnapped from (the school) in Chibok,'" Adamu wrote.
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Boko Haram tactics include the forced abduction and use of child soldiers and the elimination of education.
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Friday's premiere will open with a segment on Boko Haram hosted by former Navy SEAL Kaj Larsen.
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Ali Bukar, who was captured by Boko Haram fighters when they attacked his village four years ago.
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Polio was last found in a child in Borno, a north-eastern state ravaged by Boko Haram.
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Without a doubt, not all the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram think or feel like Zara did.
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Even the Buhari government's successes against the Islamist militants of Boko Haram have come at a cost.
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The war against Boko Haram in the north-east is stalling; the jihadists roam the countryside unimpeded.
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In areas affected by Boko Haram almost no one gets schooling, health care or other public services.
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Chad's capital, N'Djamena, is the headquarters of the five-country Multinational Joint Task Force battling Boko Haram.
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He is also battling to stem Boko Haram insurgencies and kidnappings in the north of the country.
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There was conflicting information about whether captured Boko Haram fighters were released as part of the deal.
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The army has pushed the jihadists of Boko Haram out of major towns in the north-east.
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Terror group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the blasts, said Maiduguri military chief Brig. Gen.
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The military's efforts to fight the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, now in its tenth year, are crumbling.
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This group of girls were among the 276 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram fighters in April 2014.
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Boko Haram seized 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014.
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The Defense Ministry said 64 Boko Haram militants were also killed in a gunfight that lasted hours.
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Boko Haram have been fighting for a decade to carve out an Islamic caliphate based in Nigeria.
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Negotiation The government freed five top Boko Haram commanders in exchange for the most recent release, Sen.
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Further south, Nigeria and surrounding countries continue to struggle with Boko Haram, an ISIS-aligned jihadist group.
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"The group now has a guerrilla strategy," said Nigerian senator and former Boko Haram negotiator Shehu Sani.
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Adamawa, Nigeria (CNN)In September 22014, Boko Haram attacked Bdagu -- a village in Adamawa state, northern Nigeria.
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Yet soldiers based in Maiduguri allowed Boko Haram to pillage Dalori for hours before driving them out.
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The army took the area back from Boko Haram last year, but has struggled to hold it.
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More culpable is the Nigerian government, which underplayed the crisis as Boko Haram lost territory last year.
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The Diffa region has seen intense fighting over the past year between Niger's army and Boko Haram.
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Niger hosts about 176,000 refugees, mostly from the part of Nigeria battling Boko Haram, according to UNHCR.
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Boko Haram members fled to the countryside from Maiduguri, which back then had about two million inhabitants.
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Boko Haram has kidnapped more than 1,000 children in Nigeria since 2013 according to a new report.
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Some of those girls were freed last year following negotiations between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram.
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The United Nations, anticipating military operations in the islands by Chad against Boko Haram, contacted the government.
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Fifteen other men had gone with him; all of them were captured or killed by Boko Haram.
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But it's the fragile security situation and ongoing fight against the Boko Haram jihadists that dominated talks.
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YOLA, Nigeria — When the boy next door joined Boko Haram, Mummy Ibrahim knew she had to run.
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On Friday, Mr. Buhari's government announced that it had opened negotiations with Boko Haram in July 2015.
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He visited with a group of young women and children who once lived among Boko Haram commanders.
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Boko Haram has for years waged a campaign of beheadings, bombings and hostage-taking across northeastern Nigeria.
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Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters surrendered in Chad in October and November as the group ceded territory.
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For Saudis, trying to navigate what is permitted, halal, and what is not, haram, can be challenging.
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They were all applying for asylum as homosexuals, but they believed that being gay was haram, too.
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Since then, Nigerian forces have made headway in routing Boko Haram from its strongholds in remote villages.
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In total, more than half of the 2 million Nigerians currently displaced by Boko Haram are children.
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"They started shooting, shooting, shooting," said Matte Bama, recounting the night Boko Haram raided her town, Amchide.
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Boko Haram has also taken hostages and forced them to raid cattle from other villages, it said.
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She said that when Boko Haram stormed her hometown in 2014, her two brothers were shot dead.
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Boko Haram, he said, is increasingly using children — especially girls — to deliver its explosive packages to markets.
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UNICEF says that Boko Haram have sometimes, but not always, taken credit for these child suicide bombers.
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And then hanging around with bad company and guys and doing all sorts of haram [forbidden] things.
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Some are forced to become sex slaves by groups like the Islamic State group and Boko Haram.
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Zamzam is a well located within the Haram, the mosque that surrounds the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site.
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Boko Haram insurgents have waged a decade-long war burning villages, mosques and churches in northern Nigeria.
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"These are children (who are) ravaged by the disturbances that Boko Haram has brought in," he said.
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The military has a record of abuse, including indiscriminate massacres, in its hunt for Boko Haram members.
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And it can feed into insurgencies: Boko Haram stepped into this breach in Nigeria, Chad and Niger.
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Western media, she explains, tends to foreground coverage in the objectives of Boko Haram—not its victims.
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Though Boko Haram was hierarchal, it was also fragmented, each division preoccupied with ensuring its own survival.
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The officers warned they could be ambushed by Boko Haram, said Babagana's uncle, who drove the car.
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The mass abduction in April 2014 brought international attention to the Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria.
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Boko Haram fighters often ambush "liberated" roads or villages in hit and run attacks, aid workers say.
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Buhari swept to power promising to tackle endemic corruption and root out the terror group Boko Haram.
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In Nigeria, a breakaway faction of the extremist group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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This is the same region where 112 Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in 2014.
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On Saturday, Boko Haram released a video purporting to show that girl, veiled and holding an AK47.
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In another video, Boko Haram purported to show the five commanders who were swapped for the girls.
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The executions could herald a possible return to the harsher methods of Boko Haram, according to experts.
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Neither Boko Haram nor the regional branch of ISIS, called ISWAP, took immediate responsibility for the strike.
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With increased intelligence sharing, military aid, and special advisors, the Nigerian government will rout Boko Haram militarily.
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About 220 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their school in Chibok by Boko Haram militants in 2014.
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One of them is Karen Wolfe Haram, the retired food editor of The San Antonio Express-News.
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Like many people who tried to contact the company, Ms. Wolfe Haram was unable to get through.
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Much of the territory away from the roads is still dangerous, and Boko Haram attacks remain frequent.
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At the same time, there are reports of Boko Haram continuing to take dozens of new captives.
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The Islamic State's West Africa Province broke away from Boko Haram and forged stronger links with ISIS.
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The raid came amid struggles to combat Boko Haram and less than two months before presidential elections.
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BEARCAT and DJ Haram were booked to play a Creamcake party, which is a Berlin-based collective.
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Mr. Soumana's home region beside Niger's border with Nigeria had been overrun by jihadists from Boko Haram.
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Maiduguri is the biggest city in Nigeria's northeast, the center of the military's fight against Boko Haram.
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Opinion: Boko Haram and the defeat that never was Alarming new statistics released by UNICEF show a dramatic increase in the use of children as bombs in four countries -- Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon -- where Boko Haram has waged its campaign of terror in the past two years.
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Sources: Boko Haram was paid to release 21 While the Nigerian government has said Boko Haram released the 21 as a result of negotiations brokered by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross, it hasn't said what the militant group may have received in return.
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The pressure increased as Boko Haram, or groups claiming to represent it, issued videos over a period of months showing some of the kidnapped students, apparently to prove to the government that some were alive and to make demands, such as the release of captured Boko Haram fighters.
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Friday's attacks, which bore the hallmark of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, followed a pair of bombings last week in Borno state, where the Boko Haram insurgency began, undermining a presidential announcement last month that the militants had been pushed out of their last stronghold in the northeast.
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" Read more: Malala's letter to Chibok girls offers 'love, hope' Sani, a former negotiator and mediator with Boko Haram, added that it was difficult for the Nigerian government to negotiate with Boko Haram for the release of the girls as "there is a lack of trust on both sides.
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Ms. Power, who has been touring the region most affected by Boko Haram this week, promised them that President Obama had not forgotten them, that the United States would not rest until all the thousands of women believed to have been kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed.
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Related: Boko Haram Suspected of Deadly Triple Suicide Bombing on Island in Lake Chad The government has ramped up its restrictions on popular protest and free speech in recent months as the country battles against regional militant group Boko Haram, along with countries like Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon.
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The security environment is unstable in the north due to the activity of the Boko Haram terrorist group.
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Under Buhari's command, and aided by Nigeria's neighbours, the army has recaptured most territory lost to Boko Haram.
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And in recent years, the region has been terrorized by the brutality of jihadist militant group Boko Haram.
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It has the most powerful military in the region, and for six years, it couldn't control Boko Haram.
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Since Buhari's election, Nigerian forces have been able to clear Boko Haram out of areas such as Rann.
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In recent months he had said his government was prepared to negotiate with Boko Haram over their release.
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Boko Haram sparked international outrage when it abducted the girls from the town in northeastern Nigeria, police said.
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That ridicule turned to anger in February, when Boko Haram abducted 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, in the northeast.
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For Mr. Buhari, declaring a technical victory over Boko Haram may have been a matter of saving face.
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This month, in the village of Dalori near here, Boko Haram burned homes, massacred civilians and abducted children.
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Unlike the old Boko Haram, which did not bother to govern, ISWAP is consolidating control of border villages.
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Wielding his prose with surgical precision, he examines politics, history, and culture; Virginia Wolf, Palestine, and Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram is active in the country, and there is also a threat from al Qaeda, it says.
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Two sources close to the negotiations told CNN that Boko Haram received money as part of the deal.
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Boko Haram held a swathe of territory in northeast Nigeria around the size of Belgium in late 2014.
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One of them was shot dead by Boko Haram militants in a raid on his village in September.
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I wanted to know the truth if she's alive or if she's been married off to Boko Haram.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack was similar to others claimed by Boko Haram.
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Those who were just freed were released and exchanged for five commanders from the Boko Haram terrorist group.
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Chibok schoolgirls Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls are finally free after being kidnapped by Boko Haram three years ago.
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Nigeria is tackling a nine-year conflict with Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa in the northeast.
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BOKO HARAM ATTACKS Madness on repeat: It never seems to let up: more innocent people killed by terrorists.
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"In the fight against Boko Haram, innocent people are paying the price," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Boko Haram killed more people than ISIS, which it reportedly pledged allegiance to last year, the tally says.
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Mr Buhari thinks that Boko Haram is "technically defeated" because it holds little in the way of land.
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Even though 2% of Jordan's 6.5m people are Christian, around Christmas many imams declared the festival haram (forbidden).
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Johnson also spoke of the "profound knock-on effects" that Boko Haram violence has brought to UK shores.
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THERE is such a thing as going too far, even for the jihadists of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
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American officials even hesitated to share intelligence with the military, fearing it had been infiltrated by Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram remnants are likely to fracture into isolated rural bandit groups roaming Nigeria's borders for several years.
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Rashid, who is from Nigeria, was the victim of what appears to have been a Boko Haram attack.
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And that toll does not include attacks by Boko Haram in the markets and towns of northern Nigeria.
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Because Boko Haram had used boats to attack the islands, the Chadian government banned the use of boats.
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For more than a year, they had been living with Boko Haram; now they wanted to come home.
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Residents and even some aid workers denounce hostages taken by Boko Haram as willing participants in the insurgency.
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The U.S. has provided military support in Cameroon's fight to combat the ISIS-linked terror organization Boko Haram.
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Southern Niger, which borders Nigeria, has been the target of frequent deadly raids by Islamist Boko Haram militants.
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He took office last year after campaign pledges to find all the girls and stamp out Boko Haram.
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Islamist militant group Boko Haram continues to threaten the security of civilians in the northeast of the country.
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It also borders Libya, where ISIS and other extremists are regrouping, and Nigeria, where Boko Haram runs amok.
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Small groups of US special operations forces advise local troops as they battle Boko Haram and al Qaeda.
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He said that they had been kidnapped by Boko Haram and forcibly conscripted into the jihad before escaping.
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The articles included stories about soldiers missing in Nigeria's northeast after clashes with Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram.
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So whether the women kill anyone or not, Boko Haram sows fear and division, exactly as it intends.
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Boko Haram split when Islamic State named Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the group's leader in August 2016.
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Boko Haram militants killed her parents four months ago, in their village not far from Maiduguri, she said.
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It is not the first time Nigerian authorities have mooted turning a Boko Haram site into an attraction.
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Those who refused endured more than two years of servitude, washing, fetching water and cooking for Boko Haram.
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For more than a year, the Nigerian government has negotiated with Boko Haram to get the girls back.
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The Nigerian government said 21 of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago had been freed.
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More than 100 Boko Haram fighters, some of them on horseback, had encircled the vehicles, ready to strike.
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I haven't even mentioned Boko Haram and the Shebab, though their deadly influence is spreading throughout the region.
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It did, however, put several Boko Haram leaders on other terrorist lists, and added the group in 2013.
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American surveillance drones based in Cameroon now fly missions over parts of Nigeria where Boko Haram is active.
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Her family and other villagers had been low on food and feared that Boko Haram was closing in.
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Others were merely fleeing their villages, afraid that Boko Haram was closing in, when Nigerian soldiers grabbed them.
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Recently, he temporarily moved his office to Bama, a town destroyed by Boko Haram, to oversee its reconstruction.
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Most of the time the perpetrator was her "husband" — a Boko Haram militant she was forced to marry.
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As part of a tactical move, Boko Haram has been increasingly using women and girls as suicide bombers.
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Boko Haram pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS) last year, but there are signs of a rift emerging.
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Boko Haram has long had links with ISIS, pledging allegiance to the Islamic militant group in March 2015.
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All of the girls have now been reunited with their families after they were freed by Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group terrorizing this part of the world, is on the hunt — for food.
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By early February, Boko Haram was estimated to have stolen at least 4,200 head of cattle in Cameroon.
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President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria was elected a year ago largely on a promise to defeat Boko Haram.
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The hunt for food is also forcing Boko Haram into northern Cameroon, where attacks have become more common.
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Tens of thousands of civilians cannot be allowed to die in the effort to starve out Boko Haram.
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One soldier who has engaged with Boko Haram said he believed that fighters must drug the girls' food.
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Some of the girls were freed last year following negotiation talks between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram.
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The road to liberation is long and hard, but Haram is a few steps ahead of the curve.
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The revelation came after police arrested eight Boko Haram suspects, including a top commander from the terror group.
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UNODC said customs officials in Cameroon found more than 600,000 tramadol tablets intended for Boko Haram in August.
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If Boko Haram found out these girls had failed to detonate their bombs, they could possibly be killed.
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The recent video appears to have been filmed in the Far North, a region where Boko Haram operates.
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For months, Boko Haram taunted the girls' parents and the government, broadcasting videos of the girls in captivity.
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But a curfew, imposed because Boko Haram is in the region, prohibits any patient transports after 5 p.m.
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In comments directed to both the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, Red Cross officials pleaded for urgent action.
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The extremist group Boko Haram has been raiding villages in Nigeria, Cameroon, and neighboring countries with since 2009.
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But no resolution is in sight, and while Boko Haram suffers from food shortages, so, too, do civilians.
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In 2014, Boko Haram made massive military gains in Nigeria, seizing control of huge swaths of the country.
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Tani's family fled northern Nigeria in 2017, fearing attacks by Boko Haram terrorists on Christians such as themselves.
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Boko Haram, which was formed in Maiduguri, has killed more than 20,000 people in its nine-year insurgency.
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The war against Boko Haram is one of the biggest and most underreported conflicts raging in our world.
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Boko Haram teach Muslim extremism in its training camps and is known to oppose Western styles of learning.
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To secure the girls' return, the Nigerian government released several top Boko Haram commanders who had been detained.
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Only after it became clear that Boko Haram was scattered did government officials start to consider a swap.
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Mr. Buhari came into office in 2015 with two major promises: ending rampant corruption and defeating Boko Haram.
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Still, terrorism and jihadist groups such as Boko Haram remain a major threat across the Sahel in Africa.
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Kaduna is among nine other states targeted by Boko Haram, a terrorist group in northeast Nigeria, it said.
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But with the end of a rainy season that had limited mobility, Boko Haram has regained a foothold.
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In the process, soldiers searching for Boko Haram militants have killed unarmed civilians in massacres described by survivors.
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Leah Sharibu, 15, one of the kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls, is believed to still be in Boko Haram captivity.
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Many of them have fled attacks by Boko Haram Islamist militants and other armed groups in northeast Nigeria.
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Two sources from the Civilian Joint Task Force, a group formulated to combat Boko Haram, confirmed the blast.
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"Boko Haram may have both logistical and operational bases both within and outside of Nigeria's borders," he said.
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The Boko Haram scourge has been well documented as it raged through the three northeastern states of Nigeria.
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Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok in April 2014, setting off global outrage.
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Kidnapped schoolgirl Nigerian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has been held hostage by Boko Haram for most of this year.
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These agrarian communities have been ravaged by a decade-long insurgency waged by Boko Haram in Nigeria's northeast.
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Boko Haram has chased off all the farmers, and the militants themselves have fallen victim to food shortages.
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The mistaken attack came after a military plane targeted an area crowded with people fleeing Boko Haram militants.
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The lake's deterioration was one reason Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram had flourished in the region, he added.
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Soon, Mustapha was riding motorbikes with Boko Haram members as they raided villages and stole cattle and sheep.
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The Nigerian army has had mixed results fighting Boko Haram, which is often better equipped than the military.
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Islamist extremists from Boko Haram and splinter groups have been attacking military forces and civilians in the northeast.
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While Boko Haram has been pushed from some of its strongholds, this hasn't succeeded in halting the violence.
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Even at this time now if they catch [a] Boko Haram [member] they will take him to prison.
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At the time Boko Haram were offering as much as 150,3523 naira ($753) as payment for killing someone.
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With more women likely to be freed from Boko Haram or widowed as Nigeria's military strives to defeat the militants, experts say insults, rejection and even violence towards them as they return to their communities could hinder efforts to repair the social fabric of a region splintered by Boko Haram.
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Ating, now 30, started telling stories of Boko Haram survivors in 2014 when she joined the Adamawa Peacemakers Initiative (API), a not for profit established by the American University of Nigeria (AUN) in 2012, that offers training and support to young people at risk of being recruited by Boko Haram.
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The measure directs the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense to jointly develop a five-year strategy to aid the Nigerian government, members of the Multinational Joint Task Force created to combat Boko Haram, and international partners who've offered their support to counter the regional threat posed by Boko Haram.
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Since 1967, the Temple Mount has been an almost constant source of tension because it is also home to the ... Haram al-Sharif Muslims call the Temple Mount "Haram al-Sharif" (the Noble Sanctuary), and it's home to one of the most sacred sites in Islam: the al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Failure to Share Data Hampers African War on Boko Haram" (news article, April 24): Concerns about information-sharing aside, the Nigerian military and government have been complicit in enough human rights abuses themselves to make them wholly unaccountable for addressing the threats posed by Boko Haram.
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"The government ... must not let this sore fester like Boko Haram," said a government source on condition of anonymity.
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But over the past few months, there has been a resurgence of Boko Haram attacks, killing dozens of soldiers.
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Despite military spending that is only a ninth that of Nigeria, Chad has been better at fighting Boko Haram.
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ISWA split from Boko Haram in 2016 and is now the bigger threat in Nigeria's northeast, security experts believe.
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As Boko Haram wreaked carnage in northeast Nigeria, there was a palpable sense of defeatism among the local population.
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But President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in May 2015 on the promise of taking the fight to Boko Haram.
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Borno is also home to Chibok local government area (LGA), where in April 2014 Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls.
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It called for the immediate release of thousands of Boko Haram captives, including 219 schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago.
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Boko Haram killed 26 Nigerien soldiers when it stormed and seized the southeastern town of Bosso on June 3.
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Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group based in Nigeria whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
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Nigerian group Boko Haram has carried out attacks in northeastern Nigeria since 2009 in pursuit of an Islamic caliphate.
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Take Nigeria, where a bloody insurgency by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has created a growing humanitarian disaster.
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Mr. Buhari ordered Nigerian commanders to counter Boko Haram in the country's northeast, much closer to the actual fighting.
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He said he had been kidnapped by Boko Haram and taken to their forest stronghold, where he married Amina.
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She's one of the 5003 schoolgirls Boko Haram kidnapped at gunpoint from a Chibok boarding school in April 2014.
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Islamist militant group Boko Haram has also staged numerous cross-border attacks from Nigeria into Cameroon's Far North Region.
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As Boko Haram is pushed out of the huge territory it controlled two years ago, further abuses seem likely.
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His wife Aisha has become increasingly involved in advocacy work particularly around helping victims of the Boko Haram conflicts.
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That was before Boko Haram pledged allegiance to ISIS, the terrorist group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq.
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He mismanaged the economy, failed to tackle corruption and has been unable to restrain the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram members would purposely impregnate women and girls to produce the "next generation of fighters", the report said.
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"Three years ago, we and many of our fellow students were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorists," they began.
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In recent years, Boko Haram attacks have intensified in an apparent show of defiance amid the nation's military onslaught.
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The army contends Boko Haram is significantly weakened and has been "irrational and unreliable" in negotiations over the schoolgirls.
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Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the use of suicide bombers is a hallmark of Boko Haram.
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I've been focusing on refugees and internally displaced people from the ongoing insurgency with the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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Ms Matfess is best when weaving the stories of women with analysis of Boko Haram and Nigeria's gender politics.
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In Nigeria 21 of the 2300 girls kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram, a jihadist group, were released.
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Teenagers outside of the city's comparative safety -- like the Chibok girls -- are targeted and snatched away by Boko Haram.
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Ask otherwise sensible people who is really behind Boko Haram, a jihadist group, and conspiracy theories come pouring out.
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Aisha was among the more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school by Boko Haram militants in April 2014.
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Mali has been in crisis since 2012, while Nigeria has been battling the Boko Haram insurgency for a decade.
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More than 100 girls remain in Boko Haram custody and negotiations with the terror group continue, the government said.
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The new president, Muhammad Buhari, has also moved Nigeria's military headquarters closer to Boko Haram territory in the north.
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Rising insecurity, notably in regions under attack by Boko Haram and other Islamist militants, is also a big worry.
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Continued threat from groups such as Boko Haram act as a constraint to improving stability in Nigeria's largest city.
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In October, the ministry of justice said 45 suspects suspected of Boko Haram links had been convicted and jailed.
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But he also noted the threat from militants such as Islamic State, al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and al Qaeda.
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Boko Haram has used four times as many young girls as it has young boys, according to the study.
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Today, after years of negotiations with the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, 82 of those girls have been released.
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Sometimes they were hesitant to help us since wine is haram in Islam—but everyone needs to make money.
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Boko Haram + ISIS = Marriage from Hell And the uptick in terrorism in the continent shows no sign of abating.
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Yet that has not stopped them from attacking towns and villages whereBoko Haram has held thousands of civilians captive.
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Two mothers and 16 fathers have died since the mass abduction, some of them victims of Boko Haram attacks.
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Witnesses said suspected Boko Haram militants firebombed huts and and opened fire on families in the village of Dalori.
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Terror groups Boko Haram and Al Shabaab are reportedly joining forces for training purposes, Somalia's national security chief says.
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Boko Haram has bombed schools, churches and mosques; kidnapped women and children; and assassinated politicians and religious leaders alike.
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Mohamed Amin, the head of investigations department at the Haram police station, was among those injured, Ahram Online said.
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Hillary is just as determined to defeat those who threaten us today: ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab.
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Last month Nigeria's air force said it had killed senior Boko Haram members and that Shekau had been wounded.
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Niger's government has banned the garment in Diffa, a southern region that has also been hit by Boko Haram.
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To date, the British government has provided military training to 28,000 Nigerian troops in the fight against Boko Haram.
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Nigeria replaced its previous military commander of the fight against Boko Haram after half a year in the post.
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EDT: A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee is having a hearing on Boko Haram and other threats to northern Nigeria.
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Mr. Buhari's comments came after the military dislodged Boko Haram from territory it had seized in 2014 and 2015.
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Mr. Usman said the rescued girl had described how Boko Haram tried to shield the hostages from aerial surveillance.
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Soldiers can pursue militants across borders, if necessary, but only Boko Haram fights as if the borders don't exist.
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Boko Haram has long waged a war against education, particularly for girls, in the northeastern part of the country.
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Boko Haram also splintered, giving birth to an ISIS-linked militant group, the Islamic State in West Africa Province.
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It is not the first time allegations of abuse by soldiers guarding refugee camps from Boko Haram have surfaced.
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A Nigerian army spokesman denied that troops had left the town and that Boko Haram had killed the people.
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It seems likely that, even if Boko Haram is defeated, the rationales for insurgent violence will broaden beyond religion.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram was suspected.
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Boko Haram has been waging a six-year armed campaign in Nigeria's remote north to build an Islamic state.
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From there, he watched helplessly as Boko Haram drove those still waiting on the far bank into the water.
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Then this month, fighters attempted a jailbreak in Niger at a facility where Boko Haram militants were being held.
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Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) reportedly to press Trump for U.S. support for an African alliance to fight Boko Haram.
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In Iran, a religious authority — even the Supreme Leader — describing something as "haram" does not necessarily make it illegal.
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The strikes are part of a broader offensive by the Nigerian military to rid the region of Boko Haram.
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Years of devastating attacks by Boko Haram have displaced more than two million people in Nigeria and surrounding countries.
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Boko Haram, whose name translates roughly as "Western education is forbidden," frequently uses children to carry out the bombings.
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Innocent people, even infants, have been held for long periods while the military screens detainees for Boko Haram sympathizers.
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Imagine that you and your children are starving and ISIS or Al-Qaeda or Boko Haram offers you food.
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Groups such as al Shabaab and Nigeria-based Boko Haram launch attacks in multiple countries, they reminded the conference.
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The six-day-old twin girls born to a woman who was abducted and raped by Boko Haram militants.
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"When Boko Haram attacked us in the village everyone was just running helter skelter," Saratu Zakaria told VICE News.
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In northeastern Nigeria in February, three girls with bombs were sent into a camp for Nigerians fleeing Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram rounded them up with other women and children, putting them in a long ditch to contain them.
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DAKAR, Senegal — As it torments West Africa, Boko Haram is increasingly turning to children to carry out its crimes.
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Boko Haram used 2500 children in suicide attacks last year, compared with only four in 2611, the report found.
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People who have escaped Boko Haram have reported a systematic program for training women and girls to be bombers.
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Another report released Tuesday, from Human Rights Watch, focused on how Boko Haram had devastated education in some areas.
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Boko Haram blamed airstrikes for killing some of the young female captives in a video statement released in August.
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About 100 Chibok schoolgirls remain missing, along with hundreds of other men, women, and children Boko Haram has abducted.
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"The troops also liberated over 5,000 persons held hostages by Boko Haram terrorists," it said in an emailed statement.
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These problems are compounded by an economic crisis and a government battle with Boko Haram militants in the north.
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According to the report, sexual violence is woven throughout the ideology of terrorist groups like Boko Haram and ISIS.
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Both Haram and Moor Mother pushed back at my suggestions that there's a lightness baked into these five tracks.
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Boko Haram has killed about 20,000 people and uprooted 2.7 million since unleashing its brutal insurgency eight years ago.
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The Boko Haram insurgency has displaced some 2.3 million people, who mostly live in camps in and near Maiduguri.
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Prisoners who were observant Muslims were forced to eat pork, a food that's considered haram, or forbidden, in Islam.
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Many of the newly displaced say soldiers dropped their weapons and fled when Islamic State or Boko Haram arrived.
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"Boko Haram fought their way into Molai and burnt three houses before the military fighter jet arrived," he said.
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They discussed cooperation on trade and in the fight against Boko Haram and an offshoot of the Islamic State.
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Al Shabaab is connected to more fatalities than any other militant group in Africa, overtaking Boko Haram in 2016.
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In Nigeria, more than 1,900 children were deprived of liberty because of their parents' alleged association with Boko Haram.
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Related: Boko Haram Is Using More Children to Carry Out Suicide Bombings The court verdict is private, said Øyslebø.
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But as a cleric I am taught that dancing and music is pleasure-seeking and therefore haram, or unlawful.
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Interest on loans (known as riba) is also haram, which rules out investing in conventional banking and insurance sectors.
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He had been shot in the leg and the arm by Boko Haram during the attack on his convoy.
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Over the course of a four-day siege in January 2200, Boko Haram carted away the boys of Baga.
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The eight-year conflict between Boko Haram and the Nigerian state has killed more than 215,214 and displaced millions.
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He told them that Boko Haram detained him in a house for a month, until soldiers had liberated them.
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CNN is not reporting the uncle's name because of his fear of retribution from Boko Haram and the military.
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Boko Haram in recent months has sent a stream of suicide bombers into Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.
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Avoiding territory controlled by the terrorist group Boko Haram, they crossed an unguarded part of Nigeria's border with Niger.
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Kaduna is among nine states targeted by Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group based in northeast Nigeria, it said.
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When it's attacked by Boko Haram, he's taken prisoner along with the students and their teacher, Na'omi (Nondumiso Tembe).
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Leo Irabor, the commander leading the fight against Boko Haram, said of the militants at a recent news conference.
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Last summer, soldiers killed three Boko Haram members in Marte and captured 11 others, recovering hand grenades and weapons.
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How much do you know about the students who were kidnapped by the militant group Boko Haram in 2014?
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According to Amnesty International, thousands of men women and children have been abducted by Boko Haram during its insurgency.
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Kidnapped as Schoolgirls by Boko Haram: Here They Are Now: Eight students at Walhalla High School chose this piece.
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Boko Haram kidnapped 110 girls February 19 from Dapchi in Nigeria's Yobe state after the militants raided their school.
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Government officials declined to identify the suspects even as some media reported they were high-ranking Boko Haram commanders.
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The negotiated release of 21 of the Chibok school girls illustrates progress made in the fight against Boko Haram.
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Enter Mr. Bukar and the Hunters/Vigilante Association in Borno State, the epicenter of Nigeria's battle with Boko Haram.
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Aisha Kachalla, 15, was one of the Nigerian schoolgirls released last week after four weeks in Boko Haram captivity.
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Some of us did not take the drink because we heard before that Boko Haram puts drugs into drinks.
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This is, however, the first time the government has made public ceasefire talks with the Boko Haram militant group.
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"They were more focused on places near Borno state, which is where Boko Haram usually attacks," he told CNN.
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He said "internal differences" within Boko Haram led to a "divergence of voices regarding the outcome of the talks".
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Military action is important but will not ultimately resolve the Boko Haram threat nor the spreading herder-farmer conflicts.
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Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok in April of 2014, setting off global outrage.
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He told his parents he would still try to follow Muslim dietary laws and stay away from anything haram.
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The brazen, bloody attacks by Boko Haram and ISIS-affiliated militants tragically have made these groups into household names.
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Mr. Buhari defeated President Goodluck Jonathan by promising to wipe out endemic corruption and defeat the Boko Haram extremists.
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Northern Cameroon has in recent years suffered from the overflow of violence linked to Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist insurgents.
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Boko Haram fighters have carried out suicide bombings and stepped up attacks across the border in Niger and Chad.
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They also act as the eyes and ears of the military, feeding them local intelligence about Boko Haram members.
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Boko Haram remains a major terror threat throughout Africa's Lake Chad region, which includes Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.
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The soldiers had gone to the area to clear a Boko Haram camp, but were ambushed, the sources said.
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As the #BringBackOurGirls campaign trended on social media, Boko Haram announced its allegiance to the Islamic State last March.
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They follow what they are told, whilst the device is detonated by a Boko Haram cell phone far away.
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Out of the 219 girls stolen by Boko Haram, 2015 have so far made it home: four of them by Nigerian military/ para-military intervention, and 21 of them were initially released in October 2016 after negotiations between the Buhari administration and Boko Haram, 82 more would later be freed in May 2017.
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Related: As Video of Chibok Girls Gives New Hope, We Speak to Survivors of Boko Haram It has been just over two years since 276 girls were taken from their school in Chibok, Borno State, by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram — currently ranked as the deadliest terrorist group in the world.
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In one area, a community leader described the children of Boko Haram fighters as "hyenas among dogs," the report said.
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As soldiers have scattered Boko Haram, fighters have sent suicide bombers throughout northeastern Nigeria and across borders to other countries.
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Boko Haram, a Nigerian jihadist group, released a video showing its members murdering eight villagers it accused of being apostates.
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Some fear the government is creating a new Boko Haram, the Sunni jihadists waging a bloody insurgency in the north.
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Afghanistan&aposs top religious body has issued a ruling, or a fatwa, declaring suicide attacks "haram" — forbidden under Islamic law.
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Security issues linked to the activity of the Boko Haram terrorist group remain confined to the north of the country.
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No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Boko Haram militants have carried out similar coordinated attacks in recent years.
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Over 1,900 children were detained because of their or their parents&apos alleged association with the Boko Haram militant organization.
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Houses lie empty, riddled with bullet holes, and symbols of the jihadist group Boko Haram are painted on the walls.
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Niger security forces killed 57 Boko Haram militants in April who had attacked a village in the southeastern Diffa region.
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Artists from New York's Discwoman Collective—DJ Haram, Stud1nt, and Umfang—try out percussion sounds on the new DFAM synthesizer.
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A U.S. military official said a major concern remains Boko Haram inside Nigeria and its declared affiliation with to ISIS.
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On national security he has made progress: Boko Haram, now splintered into two factions, no longer controls any big towns.
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These include the likes of the terrorist group Boko Haram, whose leader, Abubakar Shekau, declared a Nigerian caliphate in 85033.
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A few dozen escaped to tell of the night that Boko Haram militants brought terror to a Nigerian girls' school.
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Boko Haram has pledged its allegiance to Islamic State, or ISIS, and has declared its own "caliphate" in northeastern Nigeria.
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Boko Haram, which has been waging a seven-year insurgency in northern Nigeria, last year pledged loyalty to Islamic State.
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Musa Mohammed, Mohammed Fema, and Musa Bulama join the military operations to fight against Boko Haram, alongside Nigerian security forces.
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There was no escape for Fati when fighters from Boko Haram descended on her village in northeast Nigeria in 2014.
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In March, 104 of the girls were returned to the town after successful negotiations between Boko Haram and the government.
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Homes and healthcare, agriculture, and security services are in ruin after around two years of Boko Haram rule, he added.
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Mr Buhari has repeatedly claimed to have all but eliminated Boko Haram, which split into two factions in August 2016.
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Officials have been relocating people from the camp back to home villages that have been declared safe from Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram might have kidnapped the girls from Dapchi in hopes of receiving a similar ransom, a source told Reuters.
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Drone photos recently helped the Nigerian Army avoid a major Boko Haram ambush, according to a senior American intelligence officer.
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Boko Haram many times attacked his home in Doron Baga, in Borno state, Nigeria, and the neighbouring market town, Baga.
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About 82 girls were freed last Saturday in exchange for Boko Haram commanders after being held captive for three years.
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Boko Haram controlled a swathe of land in northeast Nigeria about the size of Belgium until the start of 2015.
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In the past year armed Fulani groups have surpassed Boko Haram, a jihadist group, as the deadliest threat to civilians.
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The militants were believed to have taken their Chibok captives to the dense Sambisa forest, a reputed Boko Haram stronghold.
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The man, who told a witness that he, too, had been kidnapped by Boko Haram, was detained by Nigeria's military.
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"But even after our escape, we lived in fear that the Boko Haram would return," they continued in the letter.
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Dozens of schoolgirls were missing after an attack on a village in north-eastern Nigeria by jihadists from Boko Haram.
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A Nigerian presidential source confirmed that the United States had proposed additional military assistance against Boko Haram, without giving details.
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A majority of Boko Haram suicide-bombers have been female, many of them girls coerced or brainwashed into their missions.
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In March 2015, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to ISIS, the extremist terror group that has launched attacks across the globe.
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Niger is also participating in a regional African Union task force to counter Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region.
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The man, who told a witness that he, too, had been kidnapped by Boko Haram, was detained by Nigeria's military.
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The capital of Borno state, it is at the heart of the Nigerian Army's battle to retake Boko Haram territory.
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Boko Haram hit a Nigerian IDP camp for the first time last September, in the Adamawa state capital of Yola.
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Umaru's father used to be a successful fisherman until he lost his fishing business because of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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Most of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls who were recently abducted by Boko Haram in the town of Dapchi were freed.
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In Nigeria Boko Haram, a jihadist outfit, bombed a mosque in the state of Adamawa, killing at least 50 people.
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On December 14th Nigeria suspended the operations of UNICEF, the UN children's fund, accusing it of spying for Boko Haram.
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Related: How I Escaped Boko Haram: One Woman's Story Nigerian security forces first claimed to have killed Shekau in 2009.
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Shortly after that, he resurfaced unharmed in a video online in which he announced he had taken over Boko Haram.
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In 2011, Boko Haram killed at least 21 people in a car bomb explosion at the UN headquarters in Abuja.
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Some mothers had come expecting to see their daughters, only to learn they were still being held by Boko Haram.
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It was in 2013, shortly after the vigilante group had been formed to fight the Islamist rebels of Boko Haram.
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To reach areas of the northeast that are still unstable due to Boko Haram, local vigilantes accompany the health workers.
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The Boko Haram insurgency has killed more than 15,000 people since 2009 and forced some two million from their homes.
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Boko Haram militants have killed tens of thousands in their fight to carve out an Islamist state in northeast Nigeria.
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Nigeria's long-term plan is now to corral civilians inside fortified garrison towns - effectively ceding the countryside to Boko Haram.
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Child suicide bombings by Boko Haram militants have surged in northeast Nigeria, where an insurgency is in its ninth year.
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Last year, Boko Haram claimed the morbid title of deadliest terror group for its killings in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
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It was carried out by a Boko Haram faction allied to Islamic State which has been active around Lake Chad.
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In the most recent attack this month, Boko Haram militants killed at least 30 people in a two-day onslaught.
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Last year, Boko Haram claimed the morbid title of deadliest terror group for its killings in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
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Fifty-seven girls managed to escape, but 219 are still being held by Boko Haram, and their whereabouts are unknown.
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Crypto's proven volatility has been likened to gambling and speculation, a critical reason behind the debate of halal and haram.
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"What is coming is worse than what had come," tweeted Fulan Nasrullah, an analyst with strong links to Boko Haram.
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For Muslims, who make up nearly 90 percent of Indonesia's population, eating or even touching pigs is considered haram — forbidden.
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Boko Haram may eventually become similar to Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army: a wandering, religiously inspired cult that periodically lashes out.
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If the government wants to end Boko Haram, they have to gain the full confidence and trust of Nigerian women.
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In Central Africa, American service members are working with militaries from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger to counter Boko Haram.
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The incident occurred three days after suspected Boko Haram militants killed nine people and abducted dozens more in southern Niger.
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That attack raised concern about Niger's inability to stop Boko Haram crossing the desert border from their bases in Nigeria.
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Weeks after the administration listed Chad, the country withdrew troops from a multinational task force fighting Boko Haram in Niger.
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Borno state in northeast Nigeria borders Niger, Chad and Cameroon, all of which have experienced violent incidents with Boko Haram.
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In February, Boko Haram struck again, kidnapping more than 100 girls from a school in Dapchi in Nigeria's Yobe state.
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The government has been forced to concentrate resources on combating Islamist Boko Haram militants along its northwestern border with Nigeria.
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By one count, the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has used at least 105 women and girls in suicide attacks.
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It also borders Libya, where ISIS and other extremists are regrouping, and Nigeria, where Boko Haram is a major challenge.
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Make no mistake; Boko Haram continues to be a major threat to peace and prosperity in Nigeria and the region.
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Usman said troops killed 14 suspected Boko Haram militants on Friday during a clash at Mallam Fatori, northern Borno State.
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The Nigerian military has been stepping up its offensive against Boko Haram even as the group appears to be fracturing.
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Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last spring, about the same time the military ramped up its push.
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It is they — not the wayward deviants of Boko Haram and Al Shabab — who represent the true face of Africa.
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In that time, an Islamist Boko Haram insurgency in the north, which spilled over from neighbor Nigeria, has killed scores.
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Yet Boko Haram maintains control over many pockets of the region, even some areas that were once cleared of fighters.
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In the chaotic war with Boko Haram, determining who is a victim and who is a sympathizer can be complicated.
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At the walled compound, imams visit to teach the detainees moderate Islam, countering the radical preaching of Boko Haram fighters.
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Repeatedly throughout the three years that Boko Haram controlled her village, she was asked by the commander to marry him.
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Two years ago, more than 200 girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok by Boko Haram.
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" A trip to the local hospital confirmed Gloria was pregnant — something that irrevocably brands her as a Boko Haram "bride.
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Away from the front lines of the fighting, life is moving on for the displaced who have fled Boko Haram.
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His first wife was forced into marriage with a Boko Haram fighter as well as being forcibly converted to Islam.
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Many people fled the village for a camp near Kolofata that houses thousands displaced by Boko Haram violence, he said.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Terror group Boko Haram has kidnapped more than 1,2953 children in Nigeria since 2013, UNICEF said Friday.
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Drone photos provided by the United States recently helped the Nigerian Army avoid a major Boko Haram ambush. Brig. Gen.
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Update: A second girl captured in the 2014 mass kidnapping by Boko Haram has been rescued, the Nigerian military says.
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Today is also the second anniversary since Boko Haram abducted 276 Nigerian girls, and most of them are still missing.
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