Suicide Bomber Kills 18 in Attack on United Nations Headquarters in Nigeria
Eighteen people were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber drove his car into the U.N. headquarters in the Nigerian capital Friday.
Eighteen people were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber drove his car into the U.N. headquarters in the Nigerian capital Friday.
An Islamic extremist group — Boko Haram — made a phone call to the BBC to claim responsibility for the blast.
The attack was the first on the international agency by militants in Nigeria. –BF
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Past attacks by Boko Haram, a group that models itself on the Afghan Taliban, have been launched on national government targets, mainly in the north. The largest previous bombing, of the police headquarters in Abuja in June, killed six.
Security analysts fear the group may be getting external support – and may have developed links with Al Qaeda.
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Over the past six years, each incoming commander of the U.S. Africa Command has offered a more dismal and dire assessment of the situation facing the American military there than his predecessor.
An explosion blamed on the militant group Boko Haram left at least 32 people dead and roughly 80 injured in a fruit and vegetable market in the Nigerian city of Yola.
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