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U.S. lists two Nigerian Islamist groups as terrorists
The United States formally designated the Nigerian Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Ansaru as foreign terrorist organizations Wednesday, making it a crime to provide them with material support.
The White House directed U.S. agencies to block financial transactions with the two groups, which it says are responsible for thousands of deaths in northeastern and central Nigeria, including attacks on churches and mosques and a 2011 suicide bombing of the U.N. building in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
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