Northern Nigeria

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  Female Suicide Bomber Kills 19 at Northern Nigeria Market

  A blast set off by a female suicide bomber tore through a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing 19 people and wounding 47, the emergency response agency said.

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  Chad Arrests 5 And Bans Burqa After Suicide Bombings

  Chad said on Wednesday it had arrested at least five suspects and had banned religious burqas after suicide bombings blamed on the Islamist Boko Haram killed 34 people.

• Death Toll Rises to 13 in Northeast Nigeria Attack Says Police

  Thirteen people have now died as a result of a female suicide bomb attack at a bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu, police said today.

• Nigeria May Have No Polio Cases Next Year, Says Bill Gates

  Nigeria could cut the number of polio cases to zero next year and be declared free of the disease in 2018 even though a national eradication campaign has had to contend with an insurgency in the north, Bill Gates told Reuters.

• Suspected Islamist militants kill 85 in northeast Nigeria

  Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 85 people in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses and officials said on Sunday, in a further setback to President Goodluck Jonathan's military campaign.

• Bomb attack kills 8 in northern Nigeria's Maiduguri

  Bomb explosion in a bustling part of Maiduguri metropolis in northern Nigeria killed eight persons and injured many.