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...Mass kidnappings of vulnerable school children have increased since Islamist terror group Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from a school in Chibok in north-eastern Borno state in 2014....
...In 2017, a Nigerian Air Force jet bombed a refugee camp in the town of Rann in Borno state, the centre of the Boko Haram crisis, after mistaking it for a terrorist enclave....
...Almost 100 of the children taken that day by terror group Boko Haram are still in captivity, according to Amnesty International....
...The incidents will rekindle memories of 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Chibok. Ninety-eight are still missing....
...On that trip, witnessed by the FT, he addressed troops protecting villagers from Boko Haram raids, telling them that the politicians in Niamey had not forgotten them....
...Military intervention that would destabilise Niger also has the potential to worsen the insecurity in Nigeria’s already unstable north, where Boko Haram and an Islamic State affiliate operate....
...In 2015, Boko Haram was the major security threat, contained largely to the north-east of the country. Today, insurgency has spread to the north-west and down towards the capital, Abuja....
...Not long after she moved in, word went up that Boko Haram was attacking. Students ran helter-skelter. Some broke their legs jumping from the second-floor window....
...One partner referred to a junior lawyer’s temporary return to Nigeria for national military service as “pursuing a career with Boko Haram” in emails seen by the FT....
...While the outgoing president made progress against Boko Haram, the jihadi group that has terrorised north-east Nigeria for years, the wider issue of security is worse than ever....
...Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a former reformist vice-president, likened the attacks to those carried out by Boko Haram, the violent Nigerian militant Islamist group that is opposed to female education....
...When Buhari won in 2015, he vowed his experience as a military dictator in the 1980s would help nullify the threat posed by Boko Haram and other violent groups....
...The terror organisation Boko Haram used to administer an area the size of Belgium at inauguration; now, they control no territory....
...In that time, Boko Haram has faded but other terrorist groups have risen to take its place. Secessionist talk is back. Oil theft is rampant. Kidnapping has become a national sport....
...Comfort EroI mean, look, this is also a Nigeria that is facing multiple challenges and the north-east has been fighting its own insurgency, the Boko Haram that spilled over into the region....
...Terror groups Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province, as well as other violent groups, killed more than 8,000 people last year alone....
...More than 8,000 people have been killed since the start of this year by violent groups, such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province....
...With a team of 108 art students from the University of Ife, Nourry made 108 heads — inspired by 15th-century Ife heads — to remember the missing girls detained by Boko Haram....
...She deals with contemporary issues too: a beaded work made in 2016 concerns the Chibok schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by terror group Boko Haram....
...Though the threat from Boko Haram has receded, the Islamic State of West Africa Province, an Isis offshoot, kills and plunders with virtual impunity in some northern states....
...A 20-year-old Nigerian “eco-feminist” who draws a link between the rise of the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group and the insecurity bred by a drought that shrank water sources providing food and economic...
...“We say we have a border with Boko-Haramia,” he says, in a biting reference to the Boko Haram fundamentalists who, until recently at least, frequently swept across the frontier to attack villages in Niger...
...And it should spur more commitment to undertaking policy initiatives towards ending the colossal loss of lives that has arisen from the terrorism of Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, banditry...
...In the north-east, the government has made some progress against Boko Haram, the Islamist group, though while that threat has receded the danger posed by another Jihadist movement, Islamic State West Africa...
...david.pilling@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Under Buhari, Nigeria has had Boko Haram in retreat / From Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Abuja,...
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