Network Front | The Guardian: Nigerian army retakes town of Chibok from Boko Haram

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Nigerian army retakes town of Chibok from Boko Haram

Nov 16th 2014, 17:18, by David Smith, Africa correspondent

Officials claim soldiers and vigilantes have driven Islamist militants out town where they kidnapped 276 schoolgirls

The Nigerian army claims to have recaptured Chibok, the town where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls earlier this year, just two days after it fell to the Islamist militants.

Soldiers and vigilantes flushed out the extremist group late on Saturday and regained control of the symbolically important town in the north-east of the country, officials said.

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Network Front | The Guardian: Nigerian army retakes town of Chibok from Boko Haram

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