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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast. In their biggest ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51935476/ns/world_news-europe/t/nigeria-offers-amnesty...
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51926997/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-says-rebels-ki...
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51926373/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-military-says-...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm civilians. Troops used ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51921249/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-bombs-islamist...
"A number of insurgents have been killed," the defense headquarters spokesman said, including at the Sambisa game reserve in Borno state, the epicenter of the insurgency. "It is not just Sambisa. Every camp is under attack. But we have not done the mopping ...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/17/18320726-nigeria-sends-jets-attack...
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of bases in its border areas a day after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast. "The operations, which will involve massive ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51889967/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigerias-military-star...
MAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria, May 15 - Nigerian troops moved into cities in the northeast on Wednesday, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency there in response to an Islamist insurgency. Residents and Reuters journalists saw army ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51888303/ns/world_news-africa/t/troops-sweep-northeast...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on Tuesday, ordering in more troops to try to stem an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency. Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified its ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51884454/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-declares-emerg...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in three northeastern states worst hit by increasing violence by Islamist insurgents. "I declare a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51881276/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-declares-state...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Pirates have released five Polish and Russian crew members they kidnapped from a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria last month, the vessel's management company said. Major Market Indices Piracy is increasing in the west Africa's Gulf of ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51874559/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/pirates-rele...
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Updated May. 17, 2013
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist militant camps in the northeast on Friday, in their biggest military ...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/17/18320726-nigeria-sends-jets-attack...
Updated May. 18, 2013
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria launched a campaign on Wednesday to flush Islamist militants out of bases in its border areas a day after President Goodluck Jonathan ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51889967/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigerias-military-star...
Updated May. 15, 2013
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on Tuesday, ordering in more troops to try to stem ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51884454/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-declares-emerg...
Updated May. 18, 2013
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in three northeastern states worst hit by increasing violence by ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51881276/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-declares-state...
Updated May. 19, 2013
BAGA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan promised on Wednesday to punish any soldier found guilty of misconduct during a deadly raid on a ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51735091/ns/world_news-africa/t/nigeria-pledges-justic...
Updated May. 19, 2013
BAGA, Nigeria (Reuters) - After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria's northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51862974/ns/world_news-africa/t/insight-nigerias-islam...
Updated May. 18, 2013
ABUJA (Reuters) - - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan accepted deposits by bidders for 15 state electricity assets on Monday, a milestone in a privatization ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51643219/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/nigeria-take...
Updated May. 15, 2013
MAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria, May 15 - Nigerian troops moved into cities in the northeast on Wednesday, after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51888303/ns/world_news-africa/t/troops-sweep-northeast...
Updated May. 20, 2013
BAGA, Nigeria -- Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials ...http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/nigeria
Updated May. 20, 2013
ABUJA (Reuters) - In an unwanted daily routine lasting 17 years, Phillip Cleatus sits in the dark doorway of his shoe-making shop in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51749992/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/analysis-nig...
