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Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what would be its first attack in the region since it launched a jihadist uprising more than a decade ago. Boko Haram and its rival, the Islamic State in West Africa Province (Iswap) group, have until now waged an insurgency in the northeast of the country and …

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