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File - In this photo taken with a mobile phone on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, police look down on a burnt out army personal carrier following an attack by Boko Haram in in Damaturu, Nigeria.
Boko Haram   Nigerian Conflict   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Boko Haram   		 Belfast Telegraph 
UN brands Boko Haram a terror group
Fri 23 May 2014
The United Nations has officially declared Boko Haram a terrorist group linked to al Qaida. | The world body's Security Council also imposed sanctions against the Islamist extremists who have carried ... (photo: AP)
Special event on Equality for women is progress for all , on the occasion of the International Womens Day-8 March, organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)Participants: Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General; Mr. John W. Ashe, President of the 68th session of the UN General Assembly; H.E. Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former United States Secretary of State, U.S. Senator; Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women; and, Mr. Andrea Nunez, Vice President of the World YWCA Board.Moderated by?
2014 Chibok kidnapping   Boko Haram   Photos   United Nations   Wikipedia: Boko Haram   		 Chosunilbo 
UN Blacklists Nigerian Militant Group Boko Haram
Fri 23 May 2014
The UN Security Council, acting at the request of Nigeria, on Thursday imposed sanctions on Boko Haram in a bid to cut off funding and weapons to the extremist group. | Nigeria had requested the measu... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks to the Partnership for Public Service´s annual DC Summer Intern Town Hall Meeting on making a difference through public service, in Washington in this July 26, 2006 file photo. When Obama heads to Africa for a five  The Examiner  Thu 22 May 2014
Obama dispatches troops to Africa to help search for abducted Nigerian girls
The abduction of some 300 schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram is a humanitarian tragedy. Of that there is no question. What is questionable, however, is whether the scope of the crisis is su... (photo: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Barack Obama   Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Chibok kidnapping  
Red Cross personnel search for remains at the site of one of Tuesday's car bomb in Jos, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 21, 2014.  The Guardian  Thu 22 May 2014
Coups and terror are the fruit of Nato's war in Libya
Iraq may have been a blood-drenched disaster and Afghanistan a grinding military and political failure. But Libya was supposed to have been different. Nato's war to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi in 2011 w... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Islamic Extremism   Libya Conflict   NATO Intervention   Photos   Wikipedia: Aftermath of the Libyan Civil War  
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President Barack Obama holds a National Security Council meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, April 5, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Mashable Wed 21 May 2014
Obama Sends Troops to Chad in Search of Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls
President Obama on Wednesday deployed about 80 Armed Forces personnel to Chad to help find the Nigerian schoolgirls who have been missing since April. | Chad borders the ... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
2014 Chibok kidnapping   Africa   Photos   Terrorism in Nigeria   Wikipedia: 2014 Chibok kidnapping  
Smoke rises after a bomb blast at a bus terminal in Jos, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Two explosions ripped through a bustling bus terminal and market frequented by thousands of people in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Tuesday afternoon. BBC News Wed 21 May 2014
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemns bombings
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned twin bombings in the central city of Jos in which at least 118 people were killed. | Mr Jonathan said those who carried... (photo: AP / Stefanos Foundation)
Boko Haram   Islamic Extremism   Nigerian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
In this image made from video provided NTA via APTN, and taken Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, patients are seen in hospital beds following violence in Jos, Nigeria. Dozens of people were killed over the holiday weekend in attacks across Nigeria, including 32 that died in central Nigeria in a series of bomb blasts in the worst violence to hit the region in months. National Public Radio Tue 20 May 2014
Twin Bombings Kill Dozens In Nigerian City of Jos
4:52 PM ET | Two explosions in the central Nigerian city of Jos killed at least 46 people on Tuesday, police said, while wounding dozens more. | The car bombs were detona... (photo: AP / NTA via APTN)
Boko Haram Attacks   Goodluck Jonathan   May 2014 Jos Bombing   Photos   Terrorism in Nigeria   Wikipedia: Islamist insurgency in Nigeria  
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Pentagon zombie apocalypse: Terrorists? Bah! Pentagon puts the focus on zombies
Washington (CNN) -- Never fear the night of the living dead, the Pentagon has got you covered. | From responses to natural disasters to a catastrophic attack on the homel... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr upload bot)
CONOP 8888   Photos   USA   Wikipedia: Zombie (fictional)   Zombie apocalypse  
U.K. Foreign Secretary Briefs Press William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, speaks to the press after chairing the Councils meeting on the Arab Spring. Belfast Telegraph Sat 17 May 2014
Hague in call to defeat Boko Haram
Foreign Secretary William Hague has urged West African nations to come together to defeat the Islamist terror group responsible for the kidnap of more than 200 schoolgirl... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Kidnapping   Photos   Politics   Terrorism   Wikipedia: William Hague  
In this photo taken Monday, May 5, 2014, Nana Shettima, the wife of Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima, center, weeps as she speaks with school girls from the government secondary school Chibok that were kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, and later escaped in Chibok Nigeria. BBC News Sat 17 May 2014
Nigeria abducted girls: France's summit on Boko Haram threat
France is to host a security summit on the threat from Boko Haram Islamists, after they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April. | Nigerian President Goodl... (photo: AP)
Boko Haram   Islamic Extremism   Nigerian Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Chibok kidnapping  
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan, center, answers reporter's questions as Cameroon President Paul Biya, left, and French President Francois Hollande look on during the press conference ending the "Paris Summit for Security in Nigeria", at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Leaders from Africa as well as officials from the United States, Britain and France met to coordinate a response to Boko Haram, the fundamentalist group that abducted more than 300 girls and is accused of hundreds of deaths in the past year alone. Canberra Times Sat 17 May 2014
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan cancels trip to hometown of 260 kidnapped schoolgirls
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan. Photo: AP | President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria cancelled on Friday what would have been his first visit to the remote north- ...; (photo: AP / Francois Mori)
France   Goodluck Jonathan   Nigerian Kidnappings   Photos   Wikipedia: Goodluck Jonathan  


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