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How To Beat Boko Haram? Treat Women Better, Analysts Say
Tens of thousands of women have been freed from Nigeria's brutal Boko Haram fighters, but providing a safe future for them is critical to winning the war, analysts warned Tuesday.
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Boko Haram Homeless Face Housing Crisis As Rains Hit
Thousands of men, women and children made homeless by the Boko Haram insurgency risk disease because of lack of shelter in northeast Nigeria, aid workers said on Tuesday.
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Soldiers 'Rescued' Women, Then Starved And Raped Them, Amnesty International Says
As the Nigerian military reclaimed territory from Boko Haram extremists, troops also opened fire on civilians, forcibly separated them from their families and burned down their homes, according to a report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday.
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Rescued Chibok Girls Won't Be Going Back To Home Town For School
The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria's minister for women said on Tuesday.
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They Were Freed From Boko Haram's Rape Camps. But Their Nightmare Isn't Over
For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence, the young women's minds drifted to escape or death. The victims were as young as 8.
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Boko Haram Kidnaps 16 Women In North-East Nigeria: Police
Boko Haram gunmen have abducted 16 women in a remote area of northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, police, a lawmaker and locals told AFP on Thursday.
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Nigeria Must Do More For Boko Haram Kidnap Victims: UN
UN human rights experts on Friday urged Nigeria to increase its efforts to help women and children after they have been freed from captivity by Boko Haram in the country's conflict-riven northeast.
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Over 410 Births in Camps for Boko Haram Displaced: Relief Agency
More than 410 babies were born in the space of two months in camps for people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, the country's main relief agency said today.
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5 Killed by Female Suicide Bombers in North Cameroon: Governor
Five people were killed on Saturday in a double suicide attack by two women in the restive far north of Cameroon, the governor of the region said.
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8 Killed in NE Nigeria Suicide Bombing: Relief Agency
Eight people were killed Sunday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives among women and children arriving in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri seeking to escape Boko Haram violence in the countryside.
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How To Beat Boko Haram? Treat Women Better, Analysts Say
Tens of thousands of women have been freed from Nigeria's brutal Boko Haram fighters, but providing a safe future for them is critical to winning the war, analysts warned Tuesday.
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Boko Haram Homeless Face Housing Crisis As Rains Hit
Thousands of men, women and children made homeless by the Boko Haram insurgency risk disease because of lack of shelter in northeast Nigeria, aid workers said on Tuesday.
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Soldiers 'Rescued' Women, Then Starved And Raped Them, Amnesty International Says
As the Nigerian military reclaimed territory from Boko Haram extremists, troops also opened fire on civilians, forcibly separated them from their families and burned down their homes, according to a report released by Amnesty International on Wednesday.
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Rescued Chibok Girls Won't Be Going Back To Home Town For School
The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria's minister for women said on Tuesday.
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They Were Freed From Boko Haram's Rape Camps. But Their Nightmare Isn't Over
For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for their rapists to return. During the almost intolerable violence, the young women's minds drifted to escape or death. The victims were as young as 8.
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Boko Haram Kidnaps 16 Women In North-East Nigeria: Police
Boko Haram gunmen have abducted 16 women in a remote area of northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, police, a lawmaker and locals told AFP on Thursday.
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Nigeria Must Do More For Boko Haram Kidnap Victims: UN
UN human rights experts on Friday urged Nigeria to increase its efforts to help women and children after they have been freed from captivity by Boko Haram in the country's conflict-riven northeast.
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Over 410 Births in Camps for Boko Haram Displaced: Relief Agency
More than 410 babies were born in the space of two months in camps for people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, the country's main relief agency said today.
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5 Killed by Female Suicide Bombers in North Cameroon: Governor
Five people were killed on Saturday in a double suicide attack by two women in the restive far north of Cameroon, the governor of the region said.
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8 Killed in NE Nigeria Suicide Bombing: Relief Agency
Eight people were killed Sunday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives among women and children arriving in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri seeking to escape Boko Haram violence in the countryside.
