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Nigeria Vigilantes Ponder Future After Fighting Boko Haram

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Two weeks ago, Umar Muhammed caught a suspected Boko Haram member who was trying to enter the northeastern city of Maiduguri with a bomb. “I grabbed him and took him to my commander,” Mohammed said in his native Kanuri language. Security forces detonated the explosive. The 32-year-old is a member of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a volunteer militia officially authorized by the Borno state government in 2013 to help tackle Boko Haram. The extremist sect has ravaged northeastern Nigeria...

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