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2018-12-26 Africa Subsaharan
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Nigerian army says 14 personnel killed in Boko Haram ambush
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[Al Jazeera] Nigeria's military has said 14 military and police personnel have been killed in an ambush by armed 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...
group.
An army statement said on Tuesday that the security forces were on escort duty when they were attacked on Monday just outside Damaturu town in Yobe state in the north of the country.
The statement signed by army front man Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu said efforts to pursue and "eliminate" the Boko Haram group are ongoing.
Since the group launched its campaign in 2009, Boko Haram has killed more than 20,000 people and forced two million others to flee their homes in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
Nigeria's military has been fighting the group since then and despite the government's insistence that it is near defeat, northern Nigeria is still beleaguered by heavy fighting.
Over the years, Boko Haram, which wants to form a breakaway state, has kidnapped thousands of adults and children.
The Boko Haram continued threat is a major issue for President Muhammadu Buhari as he seeks a second term in the upcoming election in February.
After a recent series of deadly attacks on Nigeria's military, Buhari and other officials have warned that the group has begun using drones as part of a resurgence. 
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