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Chadian soldiers push a military pickup truck to get it out of the sand near the front line in the war against insurgent group Boko Haram in Gambaru, Nigeria, February 26, 2015.REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 24, 2017 | World
Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said they arrested five suspected Boko Haram militants following a gunfight Sunday as eight people were killed after female suicide bombers attacked two displaced persons camps in northeastern Nigeria’s main city of...
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Nigeria has all but finished a flourishing local film industry that employed thousands of people, but was under scrutiny by clerics and officials. AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 3, 2016 | World
Kano (Nigeria)-After a wide campaign and so much pressure put by extremists, Nigeria has cancelled a plan to build a $10 million “Film Village” outside the mainly Muslim northern city of Kano. The project, to be built on a 20-hectare expanse near Kano, planned for a...
