Nigeria's chief of defense staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, on Oct. 17 announced that Boko Haram had agreed to an immediate cease-fire to end a five-year insurgency that has killed thousands of people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes in northeast Nigeria. Shekau in August announced that Boko Haram wanted to establish an Islamic caliphate, along the lines of the IS group in Syria and Iraq, and fleeing residents have reported that hundreds of people are being detained for infractions of the extremists' version of strict Shariah law in several towns and villages under their control.
Boko Haram Denies Truce, Kidnapped Girls Married
By HARUNA UMAR and MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Sat, 11/01/2014 - 1:52am
BING NEWS:
- She was kidnapped a decade ago with 275 girls. Finally, she escaped
Their capture set off a global campaign to “Bring Back Our Girls.” But many are still missing, and kidnappings in Nigeria have proliferated.
04/20/2024 - 3:30 pm | View Link - Chibok girl rescued after 10 years in Boko Haram captivity
The Nigerian army says it has rescued one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by militant Islamic group Boko Haram a decade ago.
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