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SA remains home from Nigeria by weekend

The remains of the 85 people from South Africa who died when a church building collapsed in Nigeria will be repatriated at the weekend, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday night. “If everything goes well, we will repatriate this coming weekend,” Radebe said. Radebe, the special envoy[…]

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Dozens killed in Nigeria school explosion

At least 48 people, most of them students, have been killed after an explosion ripped through a secondary school in northeast Nigeria, as students gathered for morning assembly before classes began. Witnesses said a suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform carried out the attack at the Government Comprehensive Senior[…]

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Dozens more girls kidnapped in Nigeria

Dozens of girls and young women are being abducted by rebels in northeast Nigeria, raising doubts about an announced cease-fire and the hoped-for release of 219 schoolgirls held captive since April. Thirty teenage girls and boys have been kidnapped since Wednesday from villages around Mafa town, 40 kilometers (25 miles)[…]

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Nigeria truce shaky

Days after Nigeria’s military raised hopes with the announcement that Islamic extremists had agreed to a cease-fire, Boko Haram is still fighting and there is no word on the fate of the 219 schoolgirls held hostage for six months. Officials had said talks would resume in neighboring Chad this week, but[…]

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Doubts over Nigeria-Boko Haram ‘ceasefire’

Nigeria’s announcement of a ceasefire with Boko Haram has surprised many and convinced few, particularly when talks with the rebels on the possible release of 219 kidnapped schoolgirls had been at a frustrating standstill. The rebels have had the upper hand in fighting in the far northeast in recent months,[…]

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Nigeria says ceasefire agreed with Boko Haram

Nigeria claimed to have reached a deal with the Boko Haram rebel group on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough. Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh on Friday told senior military officials from Nigeria and Cameroon[…]

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No timeline for return of church collapse bodies

Families of South Africans who died in the Nigerian church collapse have an indefinite wait for the return of the bodies — which continue to decompose, the SA government said on Sunday. “We wish we had [a timeline]. We are entirely at the mercy of the Nigerians,” said government spokeswoman[…]

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Nigerian four travelled on SA documents

Four people killed in the Nigerian building collapse were travelling on South African documents, causing confusion about the local death toll, an official said on Monday. “Initially we were told there were 84 [deaths] but through this rigorous process of identification we have now established four were not South Africans,[…]

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Return of bodies to take time: Radebe

It is likely to take “a considerable amount of time” before the bodies of the South Africans killed in the church building collapse in Nigeria are flown home, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Sunday. Updating reporters in Pretoria on the situation, he said the latest report out[…]

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Doubts linger over Shekau death claims

A Nigerian military claim that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead was dismissed as propaganda on Thursday by analysts, who said that even if true it was unlikely to undermine the rebels. The defence ministry said on Wednesday that Shekau was dead and that one Bashir Mohammed, killed during[…]

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