After three attacks in as many weeks — in Paris, Beirut and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula — in which a total of at least 397 people were killed, the world's attention is fixed on the Islamic State and its horrific brutality. But in northeastern Nigeria, another group is even deadlier: Boko Haram. The Nigerian jihadist group was behind the killings of 6,644 people in 2014, compared to 6,073 deaths at the hands of ISIS militants, according to the , published by the Institute for Economics and Peace on Wednesday. People clear debris at the site of a bomb explosion in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on July 31, 2015. Image: AP Photo/Jossy Ola The death count in Nigeria rose just as the report was released. At...
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