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Africa Subsaharan
Two suicide bombers kill at least 5 in northeast Nigeria's Maiduguri
2016-10-30
[Ynet] Two jacket wallahs killed at least five people on Saturday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
bully boys, a military source and residents said.

The first attack occurred at 0600 GMT in front of a camp for displaced persons in the Bakasi area and minutes later a second bomb went off at a bus stop, eyewitness said.

Residents saw bodies being carried into an ambulance by government emergence services.
The Daily Mail adds that 24 were injured as the two suicide bomberettes separately failed to gain access to the 16,000-person refugee camp before blowing themselves up outside it.

UN gets release of 876 children detained by Nigeria military

[Ynet] The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
has negotiated the release this year of 876 children detained at a Nigerian army barracks holding suspected collaborators of the Boko Haram Islamic murderous Moslem group, the UN Children's Fund announced Friday.

The agency fears hundreds more children are still being held at the barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the UNICEF spokeswoman for Nigeria, Doune Porter, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
One most sincerely hopes the suicide bombers in the first story did not come from the group the UN just had released.
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