Senate Probe After Nigerian Soldiers Accused of Borno Rapes

The Senate has set up a panel to probe a report by Amnesty International which accused the country's security agencies of rape and sexual abuse of women victims of the Boko Haram crisis.

Amnesty International had accused soldiers and members of the civilian joint task force of abusing people, especially women, in internally displaced persons camps in the north-east.

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