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Islamist militants Boko Haram on Monday released a new video purporting to show at least 14 of the schoolgirls abducted from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014. IMAGES
A special service was held in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Sunday three days ahead of the first anniversary of the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants.
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Eve, a local official said. "Boko Haram attacked Pemi village, killed seven people and abducted another seven, including a pastor," Kachallah Usman, secretary of the Chibok local government area, told CNN on Friday. "They also burned down a church, a dispensary and several houses," he added. Audu Chiwar, a former secretary of the Chibok community in Abuja, told CNN he received a call on Thursday from a local resident reporting that gunmen had opened fire in the village.
Niger says around 75 Boko Haram combatants have been killed in the southeast and in neighbouring Nigeria by a regional anti-jihadist force. IMAGES
Colin Freeman travels to Monguno, a village in Nigeria which sits just a mile away from Boko Haram insurgents. Despite protection by a Nigerian Army garrison, and a trench dug around the village, the night before Colin's arrival two boys were kidnapped from the village.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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