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school, covering ages up to 12. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Nigeria faces multiple conflicts from long-running violence by the [Boko Haram
school closures in the area while police launched a manhunt for the abductors. Though violence has waned from the peak of Nigeria’s rebellions, kicked off by Boko Haram’s 2009 uprising, analysts have warned
attackers raided an orphanage in north-central Nigeria and abducted 23 children. Fifteen were later rescued, and the government said “intensive operations” were under way to “secure the safe return of the remaining eight victims
Boko Haram cell, and that there have been several violent attacks in the area. Nigeria is also grappling with a kidnap crisis in many parts of the country, with criminal gangs abducting people for ransoms
Boko Haram](https://www.theguardian.com/world/boko-haram) and the ISWAP, has left tens of thousands of people dead and millions displaced in the north-east of the country, according to the United Nations. The jihadist conflict
attacks by various armed groups have prompted some to migrate and forced hundreds from their homes, have increased. In Mauritania, officials have blamed trafficking gangs and scaled up arrests of suspects since last year