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Abu Mohammad al-Adnani
Taha Subhi Falaha (طه صبحي فلاحة; 1977 – 30 August 2016), known as Abu Muhammad al-Adnani al-Shami (أبو محمد العدناني), was the official spokesperson and a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also called the Islamic State or ISIS).
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Abu Musab al-Barnawi
Abu Mus'ab Habeeb Bin Muhammad Bin Yusuf al-Barnawi is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's branch in West Africa, which split with Boko Haram in 2016.
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Abubakar Shekau
Abubakar Shekau, also known by the alias Darul Akeem wa Zamunda Tawheed, or Darul Tawheed ("the abode of monotheism") (دار التوحيد), thought to be born between 1965 and 1975 is a Kanuri man known as the leader of Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group that has declared loyalty to the Islamist militant group Islamic State of Iraq Syria (ISIS).
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Abuja
Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria located in the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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Adamawa State
Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
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Ahmad Sani Yerima
Ahmed Rufai Sani Yerima (born 22 July 1960) was Governor of Zamfara State, Nigeria from May 1999 to May 2007, and is now Senator for Zamfara West and Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate.
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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī), or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization (of al-Qaeda) which aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state.
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Al-Shabaab (militant group)
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM; حركة الشباب المجاهدين,; Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. "Mujahideen Youth Movement" or "Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as al-Shabaab (lit), is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.
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Ali Modu Sheriff
Ali Modu Sheriff is a Nigerian politician.
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Amina Lawal
Amina Lawal Kurami (born 1972) is a Nigerian woman.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.
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Ansaru
Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Lands (جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودان), better known as Ansaru or Al Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, is an Islamist jihadist militant organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria.
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Baga, Borno
Baga is a town in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad, and lying northeast of the town of Kukawa.
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Bama, Borno
Bama is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria.
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Bauchi
Bauchi (earlier Yakoba) is a city in northeast Nigeria, the capital of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate.
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Bauchi prison break
The Bauchi prison break was an attack on Bauchi prison in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi by 50 gunmen.
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Boko Haram
The Islamic State in West Africa (abbreviated as ISWA or ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad") and commonly known as Boko Haram until March 2015, is a jihadist militant organization based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon.
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Borno State
Borno, also known as Borno State, is a state in north-eastern Nigeria.
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British Cameroons
British Cameroons was a British Mandate territory in British West Africa.
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Cameroon
No description.
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Cameroonian Armed Forces
The Cameroonian Armed Forces generally has been an apolitical force where civilian control of the military predominates.
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Chad
Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
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Chibok
Chibok is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria, located in the north of the state.
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Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
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Christianity in Nigeria
Christians in Nigeria comprise 40% of the population.
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Civilian Joint Task Force
The Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) is a loose group of militants that was formed in Maiduguri, Nigeria to help oust Boko Haram Islamist fighters from their city.
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Counter-insurgency
A counter-insurgency or counterinsurgency (COIN) can be defined as "comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes".
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Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.
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Damasak
Damasak is the head town of the Mobbar Local Government Area, in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.
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December 2011 Nigeria clashes
The December 2011 Nigeria clashes happened in several towns in northern Nigeria in late December 2011, within the context of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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December 2011 Northern Nigeria attacks
A series of attacks occurred during Christmas Day church services in northern Nigeria on 25 December 2011.
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Demographics of Nigeria
The demographic features of the population of Nigeria, including population density, ethnicity, vital statistics, education level, the health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other demographic aspects of the population.
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Dollar
Dollar (often represented by the dollar sign $) is the name of more than twenty currencies, including those of Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, Namibia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.
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Encyclopedia of African History
The Encyclopedia of African History is a three-volume work dedicated to African history.
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Forced marriage
Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without his or her consent or against his or her will.
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Fotokol
Fotokol is a town and commune in Logone-et-Chari Department, Far North Region, Cameroon.
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French Cameroons
French Cameroons (Cameroun), or Cameroun, was a League of Nations Mandate territory in Central Africa.
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Garoua
Garoua or Garua (German: Garua) is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River.
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Goodluck Jonathan
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford,, The Source (Lagos), 11 December 2006.
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Gwoza
Gwoza is a local government area of Borno State, Nigeria.
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Holy See
The Holy See (Santa Sede; Sancta Sedes), also called the See of Rome, is the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, the episcopal see of the Pope, and an independent sovereign entity.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Human trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.
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Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August 1941), is a retired Nigerian Army General who was President of Nigeria from 27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993.
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Ibrahim Geidam
Ibrahim Geidam was sworn in as Executive Governor of Yobe State, Nigeria on January 27, 2009.
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Idriss Déby
General Idriss Déby Itno (إدريس ديبي; born June 18, 1952) is a Chadian politician who has been the President of Chad since 1990.
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Indirect rule
Indirect rule is a system of government used by the British and French to control parts of their colonial empires, particularly in Africa and Asia, through pre-existing local power structures.
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Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
The Insurgency in the Maghreb refers to Islamist militant and terrorist activity in the Maghreb and Sahel regions of North Africa since 2002.
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Internally displaced person
An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders.
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International military intervention against ISIL
In response to rapid territorial gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the first half of 2014, and its universally-condemned executions, reported human rights abuses and the fear of further spillovers of the Syrian Civil War, many states began to intervene against it in both the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi Civil War (2014–present).
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Isa Yuguda
Mallam Isa Yuguda was elected Governor of Bauchi State, Nigeria in April 2007 on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform.
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ISIL territorial claims
The core of the territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was from 2014 until November 2017 in Iraq and Syria, where the organization controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory.
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Islam in Nigeria
Nigeria has the largest Muslim population in West Africa, with the Pew Research Center estimating that it is between 48.5% (2010) and 50.4% (2009).
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Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria
Islamic extremism is adherence to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam (see Islamic fundamentalism), potentially including the promotion of violence to achieve political goals (see Jihadism).
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.
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Jihadism
The term "Jihadism" (also "jihadist movement", "jihadi movement" and variants) is a 21st-century neologism found in Western languages to describe Islamist militant movements perceived as military movements "rooted in Islam" and "existentially threatening" to the West.
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Jos
Jos is a city in the Middle Belt of Nigeria.
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Kano riot of 1953
The Kano riot of 1953 refers to the riot, which broke out in the ancient city of Kano, located in Northern Nigeria, in May 1953.
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Kanuri people
The Kanuri people (Kanouri, Kanowri, also Yerwa, Bare Bari and several subgroup names) are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Kanem and Bornu Empires in Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon.
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Kashim Shettima
Kashim Shettima (born 2 September 1966) is a Nigerian agricultural economist and politician who was elected Governor of Borno State, Nigeria in the 26 April 2011 national elections, running on the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) platform which is now part of the APC.
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (French: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries.
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List of heads of state of Chad
This is a list of heads of state of Chad since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day.
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List of intelligence gathering disciplines
This is a list of intelligence gathering disciplines.
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List of massacres in Nigeria
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Nigeria (numbers may be approximate).
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List of ongoing armed conflicts
The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world and continue to result in violence.
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Mahamadou Issoufou
Mahamadou Issoufou (born 1951) is a Nigerien politician who has been President of Niger since 7 April 2011.
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Maiduguri
Maiduguri, also called Yerwa by its locals, is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Maitatsine
Mohammed Marwa (died 1980), best known by his nickname Maitatsine (and less commonly, as AllahTatsine), was a controversial preacher in Nigeria.
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Mandara Mountains
The Mandara Mountains are a volcanic range extending about 190 km (about 120 mi) along the northern part of the Cameroon-Nigeria border, from the Benue River in the south to the north-west of Maroua in the north.
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March 2015 Maiduguri suicide bombing
On March 7, 2015, a suicide bomber blew himself up on a cycle rickshaw near a fish market in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, and killed at least 10 people.
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Martin Meredith
Martin Meredith is a historian, journalist, and biographer.
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Mashable
Mashable is a digital media website founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005.
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May 2011 northern Nigeria bombings
The May 2011 northern Nigeria bombings happened in several towns in northern Nigeria on 29 May 2011.
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Mercenary
A mercenary is an individual who is hired to take part in an armed conflict but is not part of a regular army or other governmental military force.
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Military of Chad
The military of Chad consists of the National Army (includes Ground Forces, Air Force, and Gendarmerie), Republican Guard, Rapid Intervention Force, Police, and National and Nomadic Guard (GNNT).
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Mohammed Yusuf (Boko Haram)
Mohammed Yusuf (29 January 1970 – 30 July 2009), also known as Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, was a Nigerian Muslim sect leader and founder of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in 2002.
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Mokhtar Belmokhtar (Arabic: مختار بلمختار; born 1 June 1972), also known as The One-Eyed, Nelson, The Uncatchable,Mokhtar Belmokhtar is pronounced in Algerian; The One-Eyed, The Uncatchable.
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Monguno
Monguno is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria.
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Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (abbreviated MOJWA) or the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (abbreviated MUJWA; جماعة التوحيد والجهاد في غرب أفريقيا Jamāʿat at-tawḥīd wal-jihād fī gharb ʾafrīqqīyā; Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest, abbreviated MUJAO), was a militant Islamist organisation that broke off from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb with the intended goal of spreading jihad across a larger section of West Africa.
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Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari is the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015.
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Multinational Joint Task Force
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) is a combined multinational formation, comprising units, mostly military, from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
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News24
News24.com is an English-language South African online news publication created in October 1998 by the multinational media company, Naspers.
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Niger
Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.
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Niger Armed Forces
The Niger Armed Forces (Forces Armées Nigeriennes) (FAN) includes military armed force service branches (Niger Army and Niger Air Force), paramilitary services branches (National Gendarmerie of Niger and National Guard of Niger) and the National Police.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nigeria Police Force
The Nigerian Police (NP) formerly The Nigeria Police Force is the principal law enforcement agency in Nigeria with a staff strength of about 371,800.
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Nigerian Air Force
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is the air arm of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
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Nigerian Army
The Nigerian Army (NA) is the largest component of the Nigerian Armed Forces, and responsible for land warfare operations.
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Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War, commonly known as the Biafran War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra.
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Nigerian general election, 2015
General elections were held in Nigeria on 28 and 29 March 2015, the fifth quadrennial election to be held since the end of military rule in 1999.
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Northern Mali conflict
The Northern Mali Conflict, Mali Civil War, or Mali War refers to armed conflicts that started from January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa.
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Northern Region, Nigeria
Northern Nigeria was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.
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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; منظمة التعاون الإسلامي; Organisation de la coopération islamique) is an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states, with a collective population of over 1.3 billion as of 2009 with 47 countries being Muslim Majority countries.
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Paul Biya
Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo, 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan American fact tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Plateau State
Plateau is the twelfth largest state in Nigeria, and is located approximately in the center of the country.
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President of Nigeria
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria.
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Private military company
A private military company (PMC) is a private company providing armed combat or security services.
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Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Radio-Television of Ireland; abbreviated as RTÉ) is a semi-state company and the national public service broadcaster of Ireland.
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Rann, Borno
Rann is a small town in the Borno State, Nigeria.
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Referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.
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Religion in Nigeria
Nigeria, the most populous African country (with a population of over 182 million in 2015), is nearly equally divided between Christianity and Islam, though the exact ratio is uncertain.
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Religious violence in Nigeria
Religious violence in Nigeria refers to Christian-Muslim strife in modern Nigeria, which can be traced back to 1953.
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Reuters
Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Safiya Hussaini
Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu (born 1967) is a Nigerian woman condemned to death for adultery in 2002.
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Sahelian kingdoms
The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of kingdoms or empires that were centered on the Sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara.
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Sambisa Forest
The Sambisa Forest is a forest in Borno State, northeast Nigeria.
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Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is attaching the right of ownership over one or more persons with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in one or more sexual activities.
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Sharia
Sharia, Sharia law, or Islamic law (شريعة) is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.
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Sinai insurgency
The Sinai insurgency is an ongoing conflict in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, between Islamist militants and Egyptian security forces, which has included attacks on civilians.
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Sokoto Caliphate
The Sokoto Caliphate was an independent Islamic Sunni Caliphate, in West Africa.
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Sokoto hostage rescue attempt
On 8 March 2012, members of the British military Special Boat Service supported by members of the Nigerian Army attempted a rescue mission to rescue British hostage Chris McManus and Italian hostage Franco Lamolinara from Boko Haram supported by Al Qaeda in Sokoto in north-west Nigeria.
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Southern Cameroons
Southern Cameroons was the southern part of the British Mandate territory of British Cameroons in West Africa.
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Special Boat Service
The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the special forces unit of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.
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Specialised Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection International
Specialised Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection International (STTEP) is a private military company founded in 2006.
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State Security Service (Nigeria)
The State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS), is the primary domestic intelligence agency of Nigeria.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The State of Africa
The State of Africa: A History Of Fifty Years Of Independence (republished in 2011 as The State of Africa: A History Of The Continent Since Independence) is a 2005 book by British writer Martin Meredith.
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Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency
Timeline of the Boko Haram insurgency is the chronology of the Boko Haram insurgency, an ongoing armed conflict between Boko Haram (including their offshoot Ansaru) and the Nigerian government.
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 19515 May 2010) was the 13th president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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West Africa Time
West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa; with countries west of Benin instead using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; equivalent to UTC with no offset).
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Yan Tatsine
The Yan Tatsine were a follower group of the controversial Nigerian Muslim leader Maitatsine, that first appeared around the early 1970s.
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Yobe State
Yobe is a state located in Northeast Nigeria.
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Yobe State school shooting
On 6 July 2013, gunmen attacked a secondary school in Mamudo, Yobe State, Nigeria, killing at least 42 people.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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Zamfara State
Zamfara is a state in northwestern Nigeria.
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1966 anti-Igbo pogrom
The 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom was a series of massacres committed against Igbo people and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966.
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1966 Nigerian counter-coup
The Nigerian counter-coup of 1966, or the so-called "July Rematch", was the second of many military coups in Nigeria.
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1966 Nigerian coup d'état
The 1966 Nigerian coup d'état began on January 15, 1966, when mutinous Nigerian soldiers led by Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna killed 22 people including the Prime Minister of Nigeria, many senior politicians, many senior Army officers (including their wives), and sentinels on protective duty.
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2011 Abuja police headquarters bombing
The 2011 Abuja police headquarters bombing was believed to be the first suicide bombing in Nigeria's history.
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2011 Abuja United Nations bombing
The 2011 Abuja bombing was a car bomb explosion on Friday, 26 August 2011 in the Nigerian capital Abuja's UN building that killed at least 21 and wounded 60.
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2011 Damaturu attacks
The 2011 Damaturu attacks were a series of coordinated assaults in the northern Nigerian city on 4 November 2011 that killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds more.
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2015 Baga massacre
The 2015 Baga massacre was a series of mass killings carried out by the Boko Haram terrorist group in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Baga and its environs, in the state of Borno, between 3 January and 7 January 2015.
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2015 West African offensive
Starting in late January 2015, a coalition of West African troops launched an offensive against the Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria.
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2017 Maiduguri attack
On 22 March 2017, at approximately 4:30 a.m, a series of bomb blasts occurred in three locations in the Muna Garage area of Maiduguri, Nigeria.
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2017 Nigerian refugee camp bombing
On 17 January 2017, a Nigerian Air Force jet mistakenly bombed an IDP camp near the Cameroonian border in Rann, Borno State.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram_insurgency
