Nigeria said to declare cease-fire with Boko Haram militants

October 18, 2014 03:16

Nigeria's top military official has declared a cease-fire with Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group that kidnapped more than 200 girls from a rural school months ago, three leading Nigerian news organizations reported on Friday.

Nigeria's chief of defense staff, Alex Badeh, was cited as issuing an order to comply with the cease-fire "in all theaters of operations' against Boko Haram, which has battled the government for years, overrunning villages in the country's northeast. The reports said the cease-fire came amid negotiations over the schoolgirls and their possible release.

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