Nigeria Islamists

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  Nigeria's Boko Haram in Disarray as Government Forces Advance

  Boko Haram is fracturing as shortages of weapons and fuel foment tensions between its foot soldiers and leaders, women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by Nigerian troops told Reuters.

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  Displaced Fear Boko Haram Violence as Elections Approach

  Boko Haram appears to have been weakened by a sustained regional fight-back but there are growing fears the group could target vulnerable people displaced by the violence, as elections approach.

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  Boko Haram Takes Fight into Chad

  Nigeria's Boko Haram rebels carried out their first attack tomorrow inside neighbouring Chad, targeting a village on the shores of Lake Chad as part of a widening insurgency that has sucked in four countries.

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  My Father Gave Me to Boko Haram : 13-Year-Old Girl

  A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb at a market in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city in the north.

• Cameroon Battles to Keep Young Men Out Of Boko Haram

  As the West fights to keep its youth from the grip of jihadists, Cameroon's Muslim leaders are struggling to respond to a recruitment drive by Nigeria's deadly Boko Haram.

• Boko Haram Attacks in North Cameroon Kill Three: Military Source

  Islamists from Nigeria's Boko Haram killed at least three civilians over the weekend as they attacked six communities in the remote north of neighbouring Cameroon, a defence ministry source told AFP today.

• Cameroon Says Kills 27 Boko Haram Militants in Border Clashes

  Cameroon's army has killed 27 members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram near a northern town, state radio said on Wednesday, in a sign of the growing cross-border threat the militants pose.

• Attacks, Abductions: an Upsurge in Violence in Nigeria

  Since mid-April, Nigeria has seen an upsurge of violence claimed by, or blamed on, armed Islamist group Boko Haram, including a series of bloody attacks and the unprecedented abduction of more than 250 schoolgirls.

• In Nigeria, Boko Haram-Style Violence Radiates Southwards

  As long as violence perpetrated by Islamist militants was more or less contained in Nigeria's remote northeast, the attitude of many citizens and expatriates in the more prosperous south was a shrug of the shoulders.

• Suspected Islamists Kill 20 in Nigeria Market Attack

  Suspected Islamist gunmen opened fire on a market in a Nigerian village on Sunday, killing 20 people in the latest violence against civilians in the northeast of Africa's top oil producer.

• Boko Haram Attacks Kill More Than 50 in Nigeria

  Boko Haram gunmen killed more than 50 people in three separate attacks, including two near Chibok, the Nigerian town were the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses have said.

• Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to Visit Town Where Girls Were Seized

  Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday visit the northeastern village from where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted a month ago by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, senior government officials said.

• 'Hashtag Activists' Push Nigeria Kidnap up World Agenda

  Social media sites have exploded with urgent appeals to #bringbackourgirls, ramping up global awareness of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists 24 days earlier.

• Blast hits bus park near Nigeria capital, at least 20 dead

  A blast at a bus depot on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja killed at least 20 people during rush hour on Monday morning, witnesses said.

• Nigeria says 70 killed in battle with Islamist group

  Nigeria's military said on Tuesday it had killed 50 Islamist rebels as they tried to cross the border into Cameroon, engaging them in a battle on Monday.