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Gunmen Kidnap More Than 40 From School In Central Nigeria
Gunmen believed to members of a criminal gang attacked a school in central Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping dozens of other pupils, teachers and relatives, a government official said Wednesday.
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Nigeria Admits 110 Missing Schoolgirls Have Been "Abducted"
More than 100 girls missing for a week after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria were kidnapped, the government said for the first time on Monday
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Days After Boko Haram School Attack, Nigerian Government Confirms 110 Girls Missing
The Nigerian government on Sunday confirmed that 110 girls were missing after a Boko Haram school attack in the northeast, following days of silence on the children's fate.
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More Than 100 Girls 'Missing' After Boko Haram School Attack
More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, police said, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world.
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Boko Haram Attacks Girls School In Nigeria
Boko Haram terrorists launched an attack on a girls boarding school in northeast Nigeria but the students and teachers fled to safety, witnesses said Monday.
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Boko Haram Violence Forces 1 Million Children Out Of School: UN
The United Nations children's agency says attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria and neighboring countries have forced more than one million children out of school heightening the risk they will be abused, abducted or recruited by armed groups.
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Gunman Opens Fire Outside Nigeria School, 12 Injured: Police
A gunman opened fire today outside a school in northeast Nigeria's city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram, a police officer and witnesses said.
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Girls Face Rising Violence in Fight for Education: United Nations
High-profile attacks such as the abduction 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the UN human rights office said today.
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Nigerian Islamists Attack Villages, Churches Near Chibok, Dozens Killed
Suspected Islamist militants killed dozens of people on Sunday in an attack on three Nigerian villages, including one targeting worshippers at a church, a few kilometres (three miles) from Chibok, the scene of an abduction of more than 200 school girls.
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Suspected Boko Haram Rebels Attack Chinese Plant in Cameroon
Suspected rebels from Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram attacked a Chinese plant in northern Cameroon near the town of Waza, a local governor told Reuters on Saturday.
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Gunmen Raze Two Schools in North Nigeria: Police
A group of gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls' school, a police spokesman said on Thursday.
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United Nations Security Council Condemns Kidnap of Nigerian Girls
Nigeria's military had been warned of an attack on a school in which more than 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram Islamists three weeks ago.
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234 girls kidnapped from Nigeria school
Parents claim some 234 girls missing from the northeast Nigerian school attacked last week by Islamic extremists, significantly more than the 85 reported by education officials.
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Boko Haram claims bomb in Nigeria's capital
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack ever in Nigeria's capital in a video obtained Saturday, as the search continued for 85 schoolgirls still missing after a mass abduction by the Islamists.
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Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria school
Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said on Tuesday.
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Gunmen Kidnap More Than 40 From School In Central Nigeria
Gunmen believed to members of a criminal gang attacked a school in central Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping dozens of other pupils, teachers and relatives, a government official said Wednesday.
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Nigeria Admits 110 Missing Schoolgirls Have Been "Abducted"
More than 100 girls missing for a week after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria were kidnapped, the government said for the first time on Monday
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Days After Boko Haram School Attack, Nigerian Government Confirms 110 Girls Missing
The Nigerian government on Sunday confirmed that 110 girls were missing after a Boko Haram school attack in the northeast, following days of silence on the children's fate.
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More Than 100 Girls 'Missing' After Boko Haram School Attack
More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, police said, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world.
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Boko Haram Attacks Girls School In Nigeria
Boko Haram terrorists launched an attack on a girls boarding school in northeast Nigeria but the students and teachers fled to safety, witnesses said Monday.
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Boko Haram Violence Forces 1 Million Children Out Of School: UN
The United Nations children's agency says attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria and neighboring countries have forced more than one million children out of school heightening the risk they will be abused, abducted or recruited by armed groups.
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Gunman Opens Fire Outside Nigeria School, 12 Injured: Police
A gunman opened fire today outside a school in northeast Nigeria's city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram, a police officer and witnesses said.
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Girls Face Rising Violence in Fight for Education: United Nations
High-profile attacks such as the abduction 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the UN human rights office said today.
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Nigerian Islamists Attack Villages, Churches Near Chibok, Dozens Killed
Suspected Islamist militants killed dozens of people on Sunday in an attack on three Nigerian villages, including one targeting worshippers at a church, a few kilometres (three miles) from Chibok, the scene of an abduction of more than 200 school girls.
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Suspected Boko Haram Rebels Attack Chinese Plant in Cameroon
Suspected rebels from Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram attacked a Chinese plant in northern Cameroon near the town of Waza, a local governor told Reuters on Saturday.
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Gunmen Raze Two Schools in North Nigeria: Police
A group of gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls' school, a police spokesman said on Thursday.
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United Nations Security Council Condemns Kidnap of Nigerian Girls
Nigeria's military had been warned of an attack on a school in which more than 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram Islamists three weeks ago.
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234 girls kidnapped from Nigeria school
Parents claim some 234 girls missing from the northeast Nigerian school attacked last week by Islamic extremists, significantly more than the 85 reported by education officials.
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Boko Haram claims bomb in Nigeria's capital
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack ever in Nigeria's capital in a video obtained Saturday, as the search continued for 85 schoolgirls still missing after a mass abduction by the Islamists.
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Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria school
Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said on Tuesday.
