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Nigeria:
Nigerian Conflict Takes Toll On Children
VOA, 4 September 2014
Children are bearing the brunt of much of the violence in northeastern Nigeria - including killings, rapes, abductions and attacks on schools. A new report blamed Boko Haram… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram Members Marrying Abducted Girls - Report
Leadership, 5 September 2014
Boys and girls abducted by Boko Haram, including Christian girls, have been forced to convert to Islam and coerced into marrying members of the group, along with other female… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NGO Raises the Alarm Over Forced Recruitment of Children By Boko Haram, Civilian JTF
This Day, 5 September 2014
An international network of human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organisations, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, has expressed concern over what it described as… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram's War On Children
African Arguments, 23 April 2014
The news that over 200 school children were last week abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group in North East Nigeria makes for depressing reading. Read more »
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Nigeria:
He Who Fights and Runs Away...
This Day, 4 September 2014
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day! That popular street lingo, abridged from a poem by the 18thcentury British novelist and playwright, Oliver Goldsmith, was… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Ruined Lives in the North
UNIRIN, 4 September 2014
Thousands have died in the violence in Nigeria's northeast between Boko Haram insurgents and the security forces, with no end in sight to the bloodletting. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram Threatens Boys School in Benue
This Day, 18 May 2014
The Boko Haram terrorist group has threatened to abduct students of a popular Government Boys School in Makurdi, in their campaign against western education in the country. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Boko Haram Abducts Women, Recruits Children - Hundreds 'Disappeared' By Security Forces - Vigilante Movement On the Rise
HRW, 29 November 2013
Boko Haram has abducted scores of women and girls, used children as young as 12 in hostilities, and killed hundreds of people in recent attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. The… Read more »