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Jerome is journalist, author and broadcaster based in the UK. He has spent most of his career covering wars and the environment. He is currently Defence Editor at The Sun. This website is an archive of old stories spanning most of the last decade.

Nigerian town where schoolgirls were captured is retaken

The Times
Jerome Starkey, Africa Correspondent

Nigeria’s armed forces say they have retaken Chibok, the northeastern town where Boko Haram militants captured more than 200 schoolgirls in April. (Read more…)

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