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At least 113 killed in attacks in central Nigeria, local official says

At least 113 killed in attacks in central Nigeria, local official says

THE death toll in weekend attacks in the central Nigerian state of Plateau has risen to 113, a local official said, in a region where clashes between herders and farmers are common. It is the worst outbreak of violence in Plateau since May when more than 100 people were killed in farmer-herder attacks. AFP News Agency had cited the Nigerian army on Sunday as saying 16 people were killed in the latest attacks. The acting chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, Monday Kassah, said 113 people had been killed in the attacks on Saturday and Sunday. "The attacks were well-coordinated. Not…
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Somalia army says at least 100 al Shabaab fighters killed in clashes

Somalia army says at least 100 al Shabaab fighters killed in clashes

SOMALIA'S army and allied clan militias have killed at least 100 al Shabaab fighters in heavy clashes in the central Hiran region, the defence ministry said, days after twin bombings killed at least 120 people in the capital. Al Shabaab, an al Qaeda franchise, claimed responsibility for two car bombs that blew up outside the education ministry in Mogadishu on October 29, the deadliest incident since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at the same location five years previously. The Islamist group have killed tens of thousands of people in bombings since 2006 in their fight to overthrow…
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