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Exodus from Nigerian city after execution style killings
Fear gripped Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Saturday with many men fleeing after the alleged execution style killings of around 40 young men, mostly teenagers, who residents said were rounded up and shot. “All male residents have left the neighbourhood…. Those that remain are women, children and elderly men,”…
Nigerian troops search house-to-house for massacre suspects
Nigerian soldiers moved house to house on Wednesday in an urgent bid to hunt down attackers responsible for the massacre of 26 people who were shot or had their throats slit in a student housing area. The attack in the early hours of Tuesday near a polytechnic university shook the…
Nigeria in talks with Islamic militants to end violence
ABUJA — Nigeria’s government has reached out to members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram through back-channel talks in a bid to end an insurgency that has killed hundreds, the president’s spokesman said Sunday. “The form of the dialogue is that backroom channels are being used to reach across with…
Nigeria Islamists claim weekend funeral carnage
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists on Tuesday claimed a weekend attack at a graveyard in central Plateau state that killed at least 22 people, but police insisted another group was responsible. After the raid that also left two prominent politicians dead, officials and police blamed Fulani herdsmen, a majority Muslim group…
Nigerian roadside barbecue shacks thrive in the midst of Islamist insurgency
The fire burns and the smoke rises in this violence-torn Nigerian city, but the sweet smell that follows makes clear there is no reason to be afraid — unless you are vegetarian. “The people here have high culinary taste,” 32-year-old Isa Jaja explained while trimming fat off a slab of…
British, Italian hostages killed amid Nigerian rescue bid
A British and an Italian hostage kidnapped in Nigeria nearly a year ago were killed on Thursday as a rescue operation sought to save them, and Nigeria said their Islamist extremist murderers were arrested. The killing of the two men kidnapped in May 2011 brought a shocking end to their…
Nigerian Islamists threaten attack on telecom firms
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A purported spokesman for Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists late Monday threatened the group would soon launch attacks on mobile telephone firms for their alleged complicity with security agents. In a phone conference with reporters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a man who claimed to be Boko…
Nigeria unrest ‘worse than 1960s civil war’: president
ABUJA — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram was worse than the country’s 1960s civil war, with sympathisers of the sect in government and security agencies. “The situation we have in our hands is even worse than the civil war that we…
Nigeria killings called ‘ethnic, religious cleansing’
The head of Nigeria’s Christians said Saturday the killing of dozens of faithful in attacks blamed on Islamists suggested “ethnic andreligious cleansing” reminiscent of the start of the 1960s civil war. Christians would “do whatever it takes” to defend themselves, Ayo Oritsejafor, head of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said after a meeting…
Christian Nigerians scared after attacks kill 40, destroy churches and shops
Fear gripped Nigeria on Monday after a wave of Christmas bombings blamed on Islamists killed at least 40, including worshippers who were left begging for mercy as they exited a church. Hundreds of residents sought to flee the violence-torn city of Damaturu on Monday fearing further attacks and clashes between…
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