INSECURITY: Four security personnel, 39 others killed by non-state actors last week

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INSECURITY: Four security personnel, 39 others killed by non-state actors last week

At least 30 people were killed in one of the attacks in Zamfara.

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1958

(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

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