Nigeria military: Radical Islamist Boko Haram spokesman shot dead

American officials also have said Boko Haram has loose ties with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab. The group’s attacks also raised religious tensions in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people largely split between a Christian south and a Muslim north.

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