The UK will increase its military and educational aid to help Nigeria tackle Boko Haram, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced.
He said Nigeria’s army would receive extra training, especially in counter-insurgency tactics, while a million more children would be given schooling.
This is the latest promise of Western help since Boko Haram abducted some 200 schoolgirls in April.
Since then the Islamist group has stepped up its attacks.
Boko Haram has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency since 2009 in an attempt to create an Islamic state in Nigeria. Thousands of people have died in their attacks and the subsequent security crackdown…
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