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• Nigerias Offensive Against Boko Haram Militants Continues

  
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  Nigeria Says Has Islamists On Defensive -- Reuters (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their bases. Military officers in the combat zone, deep ...
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• Army Aircraft Hit By Boko Haram In Borno As Crackdown Continues

  
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  A military aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Army was struck by Islamic insurgents, Boko Haram, in the on-going military operations in the north-eastern part of the country against the insurgents. The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade confirmed the attack and said the aircraft managed ...
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• Boko Haram: Army Arrests Orange Seller With N600m

  
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  The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major-General Garba Wahab, at the weekend, said the media should not eulogize criminals as the division has arrested a suspected orange seller who spied for terrorists and over N600 million was found in his bank account within three months. The ...
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• Nigeria: Persecution News Update

  
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  The link below is to an article reporting on persecution news from Nigeria. For more visit: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/May/Militants-Turn-Nigeria-into-Christian-Killing-Field/ Filed under: Boko Haram , Christianity , Islam , Nigeria
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• 10 Boko Haram members killed, and 65 arrested by JTF

  
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  65 suspected members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, have been apprehended by the military Special Forces and 10 killed Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, on Saturday said the terrorists were arrested while attempting to flee the various camps that had been raided by the military. ...
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• REVEALED: “How al-Qaeda, Boko Haram smuggle arms into Nigeria”

  
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  Proliferation of  small arms and light weapons is increasingly and dangerously becoming a transnational organized crime in Nigeria with Boko Haram’s insurgency, re-emerging Niger Delta crisis and escalating kidnapping, communal crises and armed robbery in the South East providing impetus for arms trafficking. ...
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• Boko Haram’s Secrets: Kabiru Sokoto Ready To Let The Cat Out Of The Bag

  
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  The kingpin of the Boko Haram Sect, Kabiru Umar, a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto, currently undergoing trial for his role in several bombings across the country in 2011, has volunteered names of the sect members that bombed St. Theresa’s Catholic Church at Madalla, Niger State, in 2011, the Nigerian Police Force, yesterday, ...
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• Nigeria: Boko Haram

  
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  The link below is to an article that looks at Boko Haram and their purpose in Nigeria. For more visit: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-what-boko-haram-nigeria Filed under: Boko Haram , Christianity , Islam , news , Nigeria
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• Africa: Understanding the causes of violent extremism in West Africa

  
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  Photo: Crown Copyright. Insecurity in West Africa. Fostering development can help blunt extremist violence, observers saySource: IRIN DAKAR, 10 May 2013 (IRIN) - Academics and government, military and civil society representatives gathered for a conference in the Senegalese capital this week to assess the interplay ...
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• What Next for Nigeria’s Oil Patch?

  
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  With Mali’s implosion, Islamic extremism in the Sahel, and the “Boko Haram” insurgency in Nigeria’s north drawing international attention, the Niger Delta has dropped off the radar of many West Africa watchers. Yet, only five years ago an insurrection there resulted in a major reduction in Nigeria’s oil ...
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• Boko Haram: Amnesty panel meets Kabiru Sokoto, others

  
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  Kabiru Sokoto | credits: File copy Members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North on Thursday met behind closed doors with the mastermind of the Chritsmas Day bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State and other suspected ...
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• Large numbers of Christians fleeing oppression in Muslim countries

  
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  Fox News  put up an editorial about a tragedy that is often neglected by the liberal media. Excerpt: A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway.  Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. [...]In 2003, Iraq’s Christian population was at least one ...
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• Religious Roots of Boko Haram

  
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  This is a guest post by Jacob Zenn, a research analyst at The Jamestown Foundation, and Atta Barkindo, a Ph.D. candidate, SOAS, University of London . Since launching an insurgency in northern Nigeria in September 2010, Boko Haram leader Abu Shekau and his spokesmen have issued more than thirty statements to the ...
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• Nigerian Security Services Out of Control

  
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  The May 8 New York Times carries above the fold an Adam Nossiter story, “ Bodies Pour in as Nigeria Rounds Up Islamists .” The story mostly consists of horrific reports of Nigerian security services (army and police) abuses of Northern Nigerian citizens, alleged members of or connected to Boko Haram, a ...
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• Nigeria – Christian Killing Field

  
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  It is shocking as to what is going on in Nigeria. Murder is wrong no matter who it is, the Bible says, “Thou shalt not kill”. (Exodus 20:13) But please note that in this article Catholics are also referred to as Christians, they are not, but Muslims do not know this. However genuine Christians are being killed as ...
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• Nigeria: ‘Many dead in Boko Haram raid’ in Borno state

  
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  H/T Wrath0fKhan  BBC: The region in which this attack took place is a Boko Haram stronghold Continue reading the main story Nigeria under attack Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says. It said 105 ...
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• Body Count Soars as Nigerian Military Hunts Islamists

  
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  The military’s harsh tactics have curtailed militant attacks in the north, a stronghold of Boko Haram, but at a huge cost and with likely repercussions.        
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• Displaced still homeless after clashe, Nigeria

  
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  Photo: Aminu Abubakar/IRIN A man stands outside of his destroyed home in Baga BAGA,NIGERIA, - Thousands of residents of Baga in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, remain displaced for fear of further clashes breaking out between radical Islamist group Boko Haram and troops from the Nigeria-Niger-Chad Multi-National ...
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• Beyond Boko Haram: Nigeria’s History of Violence

  
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  This is a guest post by Tiffany Lynch, a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The views expressed are her own and may or may not reflect the views of the Commission. For almost two years, stories about violence in Nigeria have focused almost exclusively on Boko Haram’s ...
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• Over 1,000 Christians Killed In Nigeria

  
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  By BosNewsLife Africa Service with additional reporting by Paul Jongas from Nigeria ABUJA, NIGERIA ( BosNewsLife )-- Nigerian Christians were mourning their dead Monday, May 6, after a weekend of violence and reports that at least a thousand believers were killed in Nigeria since 2012, making it the nation with the ...
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