Criminal gangs operating in the north-west have killed more than 1,100 people in the first half of 2020 alone, according to rights group Amnesty International.

In the north-east, Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have waged a decade-long insurgency estimated to have displaced about 2 million people and killed more than 30,000.

More than 340 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys freed from group claiming to be Boko Haram.  Good.  Should stop a poisonous troll from bleating.   

  Tears of joy as boys return but fears not all have been freed
KATSINA
MORE than 300 Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram experienced their first full day of freedom after a sixday ordeal.
But relief at their survival mingled with concern that many others could still be captive, and the circumstances of their release remained unclear.
Looking dirty, worn-out and distraught, and most of them without shoes, the boys were brought to the governor’s office in Katsina, the capital of Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria, after being released.
The assault last Friday on a rural school in Kankara, was initially blamed on criminal gangs who have terrorised the region for years.
But Boko Haram, the brutal jihadist group behind the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, claimed responsibility for the raid.
Local officials announced the boys had been released and would spend the night in the protection of security agents.
A security source said they had been left in the forest after negotiations between the authorities and the abductors, but gave no further details.
State governor Aminu Bello Masari said “344 are now with the security agencies” and were being taken to Katsina. They would be given medical care before reunited with their families, he said.
“This is a huge relief to the entire country and international community,” President Muhammadu Buhari tweeted.
It remained unclear, however, if all the abducted schoolboys had been released, amid ongoing uncertainty over the number taken in the first place.
In an interview, the governor added: “I think we have recovered most of the boys, it’s not all of them.”
In a video released by Boko Haram, a distressed teenager said he was among 520 students kidnapped.
Sources had previously said the raid was carried out by a well known criminal in the region, Awwalun Daudawa, in collaboration with Idi Minorti and Dankarami, two other crime chiefs with strong local followings, acting on behalf of Boko Haram.
Experts recently warned that jihadists – operating in the northeast of the country, hundreds of kilometres from where Friday’s attack occurred
– were attempting to forge an alliance with criminal gangs in the northwest.
Many parents of the missing students said they had long feared an attack, given escalating violence in the region.
 

Well spit three times and call me allah.

Why are the followers of islam such backward idiots?

Why does the sick leftwing of politics in the west, want us to all accept and embrace the filth and depravity of islam?

moses wrote on Dec 20^th, 2020 at 3:43pm:


Perhaps 'cause we know not all Muslims are evil, Moses.  You've never discussed anything, even the time of day, with a Muslim.  Tsk, tsk, so how the hell do you know what they believe?  Oh, dearie, dearie, me. tripped up again by reality, Islamophobe.   

Frank wrote on Dec 20^th, 2020 at 8:24pm:


Do "we"?  Prove it, Soren.  Let's see a little bit of evidence from you that doesn't rely on hearsay.  Tsk, tsk.