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Nigerian villagers missing two days after suspected nomadic herders kill 140
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoNigerian mother-of-three Grace Godwin was preparing food on Christmas Eve when her husband burst into the kitchen and ordered her and the children to run and take cover in the bush after gunmen ...
Civilians killed in Nigerian drone attack in north - officials, witnesses
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoCivilians were killed in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state following a military drone attack targeting insurgents and bandits on Sunday night, the state governor, a religious leader and witnesses ...
Gunmen kill 20 people in Nigeria, others wounded - police
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoAt least 20 people were killed and others sustained gunshot wounds on Thursday after armed men attacked two villages in the north central state of Plateau, where violence between cattle herders ...
Gunmen kill at least 30 in weekend attacks in northern Nigeria
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoGunmen in Nigeria have killed at least 30 people and kidnapped a number of children in separate attacks in three northern states, police and residents said, the latest incidents in a region ...
Deaths from latest Nigerian inter-communal clashes pass 100
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe death toll from fighting between farmers and herders in Nigeria's north-central state of Plateau has risen beyond 100, with locals searching in the bush for more bodies, residents and local ...
Gunmen kidnap 80, including children, in northwest Nigeria
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoGangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities across northwestern Nigeria in recent years, while Islamist militants continue to stage attacks in the northeast. The latest kidnapping ...
Gunmen in Nigeria seize eight students in latest kidnapping
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoGunmen in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state kidnapped eight secondary school students coming from school along with an unknown number of others, authorities said on Tuesday, the latest in a wave ...
Factbox-Legal hurdles faced by LGBT+ people in Africa
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoUganda's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing...
After delays, Nigerians keep watch for key vote's outcome
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoSome frustrated Nigerians cast their ballots with flashlights while others stood watch at their...
Nigerian police to treat protesters who attack banks, ATMs as robbers
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoLAGOS (Reuters) -Nigerian police on Friday said some citizens frustrated by cash shortages in the...
