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Human Rights Concerns Limit U.S. Intelligence, Military Aid to Nigeria
A member of Boko Haram (AP Photo)
Mark Hosenball, REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The United States is limiting its intelligence and military aid to Nigeria during Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency due to concerns over the country’s human rights record, U.S. officials say.
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria in its six-year insurgency and has also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, which has created a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
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