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Chibok two years on

Friday 8 April 2016

Two years after a mass kidnapping of girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists shocked the world, AFP's Nigeria bureau chief Phil Hazlewood travelled to the ruins of the school in Chibok.

"It’s a symbol of the conflict, a glaring example of the huge cost of extremist violence to ordinary people, failures of security and governance and the daunting challenges of rebuilding," he writes.

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Killing in a media blackout

Friday 30 January 2015

"This week my colleague Celia Lebur travelled to Chad's border with Nigeria to hear the tales of men and women who escaped what may be the worst atrocity in Boko Haram's six-year Islamist insurgency, the assault on Baga," writes AFP's bureau chief in Lagos, Phil Hazlewood. "The harrowing stories add to mounting eye-witness accounts that we've already been able to gather from Nigeria, pointing at killings on a mass scale in Baga. But the numbers - even now, a month later - are impossible to verify."

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