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Another ‘Islamic State’? Boko Haram’s captured area about size of Slovakia Boko Haram has grown from a small terror group to a mini-country with its own territory, which can be compared to gains made by the Islamic State (IS). Boko Haram now controls an area the size of Costa Rica or Slovakia. The militant groups territory now totals about 52,000 square kilometers, One of the latest towns to be captured by the group was Baga in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, close to Lake Chad. According to witness estimates, Boko Haram militants killed at least 2,000 people there, although the Nigerian military later put the figure at 150. Amnesty International said the attack could be the deadliest by the group since it surfaced in 2009.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:40:39 +0000

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