Nigeria

Hours after Nigeria’s ambassador to the US claimed Nigeria was opposed to the recent Foreign Terrorist Organization designation of Boko Haram, as “Nigeria is safe and capable of curtailing the group,” a Boko Haram raid killed 26 civilians and razed 40 houses in Borno state. In Abuja, a Boko Haram member was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the April 26, 2012 bombing of newspaper offices in Kaduna.

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