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Senegal Fears Extremism Amid Imam Arrests, Regional Attacks

Dozens of armed security forces descended on the Quranic school at night, arresting an imam suspected of having links to Islamic extremists in Nigeria. As the forces encircled the home of Imam Alioune Badara Ndao, 300 boys from his boarding school ran into the dirt courtyard, panicked at the sudden appearance of the gendarmes in this peanut-industry town.   More arrests were carried out in the weeks that followed, including of three other imams accused of supporting Boko Haram,...


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