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Tuesday 20 October 2020
110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria were kidnapped just over a month ago.
“The rescued girls are now in the custody of the Nigerian Army.”
News of the rescue comes after weeks of relentless attacks by Boko Haram in the northeast.
Children in Nigeria and the Chad Basin are being viewed with increasing paranoia at checkpoints as they are thought to be the carriers of explosives.
“It was when the prayers were on that he set off his explosives,” a police spokesperson said.
People accused of supporting Boko Haram are being brutally tortured in Cameroon.
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The president has promised to support their “education, health, security and general well-being”.
They were exchanged for a number of Boko Haram fighters held by authorities in Nigeria.
At least 52 people have been killed and another 120 injured.
“She headed toward the poultry sellers, and then detonated her explosives belt.”
It’s now feared that studies which showed a drop in the number of Nigerian children at risk is actually caused by children disappearing.
The army said that three other key figures were also killed.
The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014 provoked global outrage.
A campaign group said today the 19-year-old was not on the list.
Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman “has confirmed the rescue of another Chibok girl this evening”, a statement said.
The abductions in 2014 caused outrage in Nigeria and across the world.
A jeep in her motorcade hit the boy. She offered the boy’s family ‘profound condolences and our grief and heartbreak’.
More than 200 girls were abducted from a secondary school in Chibok on 14 April 2014.
A further 18 people sustained injuries in the blast.
A new report identifies that women and girls with disabilities are “a particularly at risk group for sexual violence” during humanitarian crises.
The number killed in the attack this evening is unclear at this time.
The 25-year-old mother was making her way to Europe from Cameroon.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bus park bombing but it bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram.
200 abducted girls and 93 women was rescued after the Nigeria army attacked one of the group’s camps.
One year on, the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria are still missing
Militant group Boko Haram followed through on a warning to disrupt the process.
Security analysts say the pledge may only have propaganda value in the short term – but could lead to closer links.
Women have even been banned from attending markets due to this sort of attack.
The group’s activities are shifting east and concentrating on border areas.
Hundreds are feared to have been killed in the group’s latest attacks.
The Islamist militants ‘burst into two villages and torched homes’.
The group is believed to have killed as many as 2,000 people in the last weeks.
The militant group is responsible for the deaths of around 2,000 people.
The group killed over 2,000 people last week.
Witnesses said the girl may not have known what exactly was strapped to her body under her hijab.
An Amnesty International statement said there were reports the town of Baga was razed and that as many as 2,000 people were killed.
Boko Haram killed as many as 2,000 in their latest attacks.
The attack comes as President Goodluck Jonathan kicked off his campaign for re-election.
The attack occurred in the northeast of Nigeria on New Year’s Eve
A new report has detailed incidents across the world.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
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