Nigeria’s military says it has agreed a truce with Islamist militant group Boko Haram and the schoolgirls it has abducted will be released.
The deal was announced by Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh.
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The military has struggled to defeat Boko Haram, which has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.
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The Islamist militant group sparked global outrage six months ago by abducting more than 200 girls from the town of Chibok.
