NIGERIA: Troops Kill 50 Insurgents, As Army Chief Visits Borno State. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Azubike Ihejirika, yesterday arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital to assess the deployment of troops of the newly formed 7 Division of Nigerian Army. The division has taken over the management of security in the North East zone as the Joint Task Force (JTF) has been dissolved as the next phase of the prosecution of the war against the Boko Haram insurgency as ordered by President Goodluck Jonathan. Also yesterday, the military said that it had killed 50 Boko Haram members in an operation in the northeast launched in response to an insurgent attack, in the latest violence to hit the region. Inwalomhe Donald, Researcher on Boko Haram, Nigeria
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:00:29 +0000
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