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Hundreds flee homes in northern Nigeria as Boko Haram move in
5 Sep 2014: Islamic extremists have been seizing towns and now control large swath in north-east of Africa's most populous country
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11 Sep 2014:
As Abuja confronts the Ebola outbreak and Washington confronts Isis, Islamic militants continue to rampage virtually unchecked in northern Nigeria
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5 Sep 2014: Islamic extremists have been seizing towns and now control large swath in north-east of Africa's most populous country
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3 Sep 2014:
Foreign ministers meet as land grab by militants in north-eastern Nigeria raises fears of Isis-style takeover
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2 Sep 2014:
Islamist insurgents seize swaths of north-eastern town of Bama, killing scores and displacing thousands in overnight raid
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20 Aug 2014: Distinct from Bin Laden's al-Qaida, cash-rich Islamic insurgents mix fanaticism, violence and terrorism with territorial expansion
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16 Aug 2014:
Bishop of Leeds slams failure over Islamist extremism in scathing letter backed by the archbishop of Canterbury
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15 Aug 2014: Witnesses who fled remote village say Islamist fighters taunted and then forced 97 males into vehicles before driving off
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30 Jul 2014: Female attacker blew herself up at crowded noticeboard in Kano after girl, 10, was arrested with explosives strapped to her chest
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24 Jul 2014:
Distraught parents cling to hope, 100 days after Islamist rebels kidnapped nearly 300 of their daughters from a school in Borno state
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22 Jul 2014: Lola Okolosie: Goodluck Jonathan’s response to the Boko Haram crisis has been to hire an American PR firm. Nigerians abroad and at home are shaking their heads in disbelief
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22 Jul 2014:
Goodluck Jonathan, who has been accused of not doing enough to save victims, met relatives and several escaped abductees
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19 Jul 2014:
Survivors say group fired RPGs, threw bombs into homes and gunned down people trying to escape the ensuing fires
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14 Jul 2014: Nigerian president agrees to meet parents of missing students after talks with Pakistani pupil who survived shooting by Taliban
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13 Jul 2014: Pakistani teenager meets several girls who escaped captors and vows to help free 200 still held by Islamist militants
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11 Jul 2014:
Philip Ikita: Secrecy surrounding security matters and deeply entrenched corruption are failing communities across the country
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