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Nigeria reaches deal with Boko Haram over abducted girls - source

by Reuters
Friday, 17 October 2014 14:48 GMT

Isaac Rebecca, one of the girls that escaped from the Boko Haram camp, is comforted during a protest march, in continuation of the Global Week of Action to commemorate six months since the abduction of the 219 Chibok school girls, organized by the Abuja "Bring Back Our Girls" protest group to the Presidential Villa, in Abuja October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

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ABUJA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Nigeria's government has reached a deal with Islamic militant group Boko Haram for a cease-fire and the release of around 200 girls kidnapped six months ago from a school in the northeast town of Chibok, a presidency source said on Friday.

"The Nigerian government has reached two agreements with the Boko Haram group. Firstly a cease-fire agreement and then the release of the abducted Chibok girls," the source told Reuters.

(Reporting by Felix Onuah; Writing by Ed Cropley)

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