Boko Haram terror designation welcomed
Escape: a former French hostage, Francis Collomp, second from
right, is greeted by relatives as he arrives at the Villacoublay
military airbase outside Paris, on Monday. Mr Collomp, an engineer,
escaped from his abductors in Zaria, in the northern Nigerian state
of Kaduna, and went to the nearest police station, said Kaduna
State Police Commissioner Olufemi Adenaike. Police identified no
suspects, but the Boko Haram splinter group Ansaru had claimed
responsibility for his kidnapping
Escape: a former French hostage, Francis Collomp, second from
right, is greeted by relatives as he arrives at the Villacoublay
military airbase outs...
CHURCH groups and campaigners welcomed the United States's
decision last week to designate the Islamist group Boko Haram as a
"foreign terrorist organisation and specially designated global
terrorist" group. The White House Adviser for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism, Lisa Monaco, said that by cutting off terrorist
organisations from US financial institutions, and enabling banks to
freeze assets held in the US, "these designations demonstrate our
strong support for Nigeria's fight against terrorism, and its
efforts to address security challenges in the north."
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