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UN chief condemns Nigeria’s suicide attacks, calls for justice

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The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned this week’s suicide attacks in north-eastern Nigeria.

At least eight people were killed in camps for internally displaced persons near Maiduguri.

Guterres has urged the Nigerian government to bring the perpetrators of those attacks to justice.

Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Borno has been plagued by violent attacks carried out by Boko Haram.

The Islamists terror group has waged war on West Afriva for seven years, killing more than 20,000 people and displacing millions others.

President Muhammadu Buhari pledged to crash the militants group during his campaigns to lead the West African nation.

Earlier this week, The Nigerian army set a new deadline to capture Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau.

Chief of Army Staff General Tukur Buratai gave his men 40 days to capture the elusive leader, whether dead or alive.

Shekau’s name is included in a list of 71st most wanted terrorist in the world released by the US in 2015.

He has often appeared in propaganda videos after attacks.

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