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Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 12:43 PMNigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with aut...
Official: Nigeria military shells camps, kills 21
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:22 AMSoldiers in northeast Nigeria shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against the insurgents, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday.
Warplanes, troops in NE Nigeria, mobile phones cut
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 11:07 AMMobile phone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight Islamic extremists waging a brutal insurgency.
Authorities: 42 dead in Nigeria extremist attacks
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 1:46 PMCoordinated attacks by Islamic extremists armed with heavy machine guns killed at least 42 people in northeast Nigeria, authorities said Tuesday, the latest in a string of increasingly bloody attacks threatening peace in Africa's most populo...
