KANO, NIGERIA ¨C AFP-Jiji
Boko Haram killed 20 people and wounded scores of others in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said Monday.
The brazen operation ¡ª which unfolded around the very city where Boko Haram was born ¡ª turned the spotlight on the authorities¡¯ struggle to quell the jihadis¡¯ nearly nine-year-old offensive.
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