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On Christmas Day, Nigeria became the latest target of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombing spree. Mr. Trump had earlier claimed that Christians were facing “genocide” — an allegation Abuja has strongly rejected. The U.S. targeted two alleged Islamic State camps in Sokoto, a northwestern State. During last year’s presidential campaign, he had repeatedly criticised what…
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Nigerian soldiers at a checkpoint in Gwoza, Nigeria, a town liberated from Boko Haram. File | Photo Credit: AP Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia and jihadist sources told AFP onMonday (November 10, 2025). Fighting between Boko Haram and rival…
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Nineteen “seriously injured” people were taken to the regional capital Maiduguri. Kano, Nigeria: At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in a string of suicide attacks in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, emergency services said. In one of three blasts in the town of Gwoza, a female attacker with a baby strapped to…
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“Nigerian security forces have rescued dozens of captives mostly women and children held by Islamic extremist rebels in the country’s hard-hit north-eastern region,” the Army said. The Nigerian Army said, on August 28, that 25 captives were rescued during “clearance operations” by its troops in Borno state’s Gwoza district, a hotbed for the jihadi violence…