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Suspected jihadist rebels kill 10 in northeastern Nigeria

By HARUNA UMAR - Associated Press

Electoral officials carry ballot boxes before the Presidential and National Assembly election in Yola, Nigeria, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Africa's most populous country goes to the polls on Saturday to decide whether President Muhammadu Buhari deserves a second term. While more than 70 people are running to lead Nigeria, the close race comes down to Buhari and a billionaire former vice president, Atiku Abubakar. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

The Latest: Nigerian army says 6 ‘hoodlums’ killed

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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari casts his vote, accompanied by his wife Aisha, in his hometown of Daura, in northern Nigeria Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Nigerians are going to the polls for a presidential election Saturday, one week after a surprise delay for Africa's largest democracy. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Counting starts in Nigeria’s delayed poll marked by violence

By BEN CURTIS and RODNEY MUHUMUZA and ISMAIL ALFA ABDULRAHIM - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, file photo, Nigeria's incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress Party, center, gestures during an election campaign rally at the Teslim Balogun stadium in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria's government is acknowledging a resurgence of Islamic extremist violence. The near-daily attacks have many traumatized Nigerians questioning whether they can vote for President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, as he seeks a second term. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Islamic militants’ deadly resurgence threatens Nigeria polls

By Haruna Umar and Cara Anna - Associated Press

Recently freed School girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi, during a meeting with Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential palace in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, March 23, 2018. Nigeria's president welcomed to his official residence more than 100 girls who were released by Boko Haram Wednesday after being kidnapped last month.(AP Photo/Azeez Akunleyan) ** FILE **

Boko Haram attack kills 15, wounds 83 in northern Nigeria

By Haruna Umar and Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim - Associated Press

This image taken from video shows the exterior of Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria on Thursday Feb. 22, 2018. As a painful debate about school safety rages in the U.S., President Donald Trump’s proposal to put more guns in schools carries echoes of the questions being asked in the northeast Nigeria. Determined to do something, the government has deployed armed guards to schools as parents debate the merits of giving guns to teachers themselves. (AP Photo)

US and Nigeria see painful parallels in school safety debate

By JOSH LEDERMAN and HARUNA UMAR - Associated Press

Doctors Without Borders has managed to get aid to a camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, but as many as 75,000 children will die in the next year as families seeking refuge from Boko Haram find famine-like conditions. (Associated Press)

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram now threatened by famine

By Ali Abare Abubakar - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo taken Monday Aug. 29, 2016. Jean Stowell, an American midwife, from Loconia, New Hampshire, who is in charge of an emergency feeding center, carries 18-month-old Yakubu a malnourished child at the center run by Doctors Without Borders in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry out are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the kids lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying, the latest victims of Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria facing ‘a famine unlike any we have ever seen’

By Michelle Faul - Associated Press

A police officer stand guards as people cast their votes during Presidential and National assembly election in Yola, Nigeria Saturday, March 28, 2015. Nigerians went to the polls Saturday in presidential elections which analysts say will be the most tightly contested in the history of Africa's richest nation and its largest democracy. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Boko Haram kills 41, prevents hundreds voting in Nigeria

By Michelle Faul and Haruna Umar - Associated Press

Children stand near the scene of an explosion in a mobile phone market in Potiskum, Nigeria, Monday Jan. 12, 2015. Two female suicide bombers targeted the busy marketplace on Sunday. (AP Photo/Adamu Adamu)

Boko Haram aftermath: Survivors of Nigeria attack describe killings

By Haruna Umar and Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

A woman attends a demonstration in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday Sept. 11, 2014, calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok. More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno on April 14. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the act. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

Report: Boko Haram threatens regional capital in Nigeria

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Vigilante and local hunters armed with guns patrol the streets of Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The United States is preparing to launch a &quot;major&quot; border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday. Nigerian insurgents have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon and have been seizing land in northeast Nigeria where they proclaimed an Islamic caliphate. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

Islamic extremists grab towns in northeast Nigeria

By IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ and MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Women attend a prayer meeting calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria. Extremists have abducted 91 more people, including toddlers as young as 3, in weekend attacks on villages in Nigeria, witnesses said Tuesday, June 24, 2014, providing fresh evidence of the military&#8217;s failure to curb an Islamic uprising and the government&#8217;s inability to provide security. The victims included 60 girls and women, some of whom were married, and 31 boys, witnesses said. A local official confirmed the abductions, but security forces denied them. Nigeria&#8217;s government and military have been internationally embarrassed by their slow response to the abductions of more than 200 schoolgirls who were kidnapped April 15 and remain captive. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba,File)

Extremists abduct 91 more people in Nigeria

By Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Thursday, May 8, 2014, file photo, Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan speaks during the World Economic Forum on Africa in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Nigeria leader nixes visit where girls kidnapped

By Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul - Associated Press