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Added on the 21/03/2018 11:40:19 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Islamist militants Boko Haram on Monday released a new video purporting to show at least 14 of the schoolgirls abducted from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014. IMAGES
A special service was held in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Sunday three days ahead of the first anniversary of the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants.
Niger says around 75 Boko Haram combatants have been killed in the southeast and in neighbouring Nigeria by a regional anti-jihadist force. IMAGES
Colin Freeman travels to Monguno, a village in Nigeria which sits just a mile away from Boko Haram insurgents. Despite protection by a Nigerian Army garrison, and a trench dug around the village, the night before Colin's arrival two boys were kidnapped from the village.