Boko Haram, meaning “Western education is sinful” in Hausa, has also been blamed for a campaign of shootings and bombings against security forces and authorities in the north.
Attacks in and around the capital – including one on the U.N. headquarters in August that killed at least 24 people – suggest the group is trying to raise its profile and radiate out from its heartland in the northeast.
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