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                     Nigeria Arrests Islamist Group Leader

   by VOA News

   Nigeria's army says it has arrested the leader of the Islamist militant
   group Ansaru, a breakaway faction of Boko Haram.

   Ministry of Defense spokesman Rabe Abubakar says Khalid al-Barnawi was
   arrested in the central city of Lokoja on Friday.

   The U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward for al-Barnawi
   since 2012.

   Ansaru emerged as a separate group from Boko Haram that year. Both
   groups aim to establish an Islamic state in Muslim-majority northern
   Nigeria.

   The United States accused Ansaru of kidnapping and killing several
   foreign workers in Nigeria and killing Nigerian police officers during
   a 2012 attack on an Abuja police station.

   It also said Ansaru has close ties to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb,
   and designated Ansaru as a terrorist group in November 2013.
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