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Nigeria paid Boko Haram ransom for kidnapped pupils: AFP investigation

The Nigerian government paid Boko Haram militants a huge ransom of millions of dollars to free up to 230 children and staff the jihadists abducted from a Catholic school in November, an AFP investigation revealed Monday.

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