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Boko Haram: West African leaders declare 'war'
May 18, 2014
As insurgents fired rockets into a busy marketplace in Nigeria's northeast Saturday, killing as many as 31 people, the military's control and composure in the volatile region continued to unspool.
The army has spent recent days trying to defuse a budding mutiny in its ranks; it relocated a general after soldiers revolted and fired on their superior inside the barracks.