Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of unleashing a new weapon of war – the female suicide bomber, fuelling concern that its insurgency has entered a more ruthless phase.
Four of them – all teenage girls – carried out attacks in the biggest northern city, Kano, last week, leading to social media sites going viral with speculation – dismissed as unfounded by the government – that Boko Haram had turned some of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April into human bombs…
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