Boko Haram attacks continue
Plea: the Shehu of Borno, al-Hajj Muhammad al-Amin ibn
Muhammad al-Kanemi, asks for a period of prayers and
fasting, as he speaks to vigilantes and local
hunters, outside his place in Maiduguri, at the start of last
month, after attacks in the area by Islamist extremists
escalated
Plea: the Shehu of Borno, al-Hajj Muhammad al-Amin ibn
Muhammad al-Kanemi, asks for a period of prayers and
fasting, as he spea...
CHURCHES were burned, and a pastor and teacher were among dozens
killed, in the latest attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants in
north-eastern Nigeria.
Newspapers in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, reported that
ten churches had been burned to the ground last weekend; also
houses belonging to Christians in Borno State.
Reports say, however, that, as the terrorists left, they were
ambushed by government troops, and many of them were killed.
The charity the Barnabas Fund said that Christians had fled to
mountains and villages near by, seeking refuge. Thousands of people
have been killed in the region since the insurgency began in
2009.
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