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400 sentenced in Nigeria for links to Islamic militants

2026-04-11 21:04:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

400 sentenced in Nigeria for links to Islamic militants

Nearly 400 people have been convicted in Nigeria for links to militant Islamic groups after mass trials.

The convicts were sentenced to between five years and life imprisonment after being linked to Boko Haram or a splinter rival group, Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap).

The trials come at a time when the government is under intense pressure to curb rising insecurity in Africa's most populous country. Security forces are battling a range of armed groups, from militant Islamists to separatists and kidnap-for-ransom gangs.

Boko Haram launched an insurgency in the northeast in 2009, killing tens of thousands of people and displacing more than two million, aid groups say.

On Wednesday, the US urged its citizens to reconsider travel to the country due to the deteriorating security situation.

More than 500 suspects were arraigned at the federal high court in the capital, Abuja, on charges of participating in attacks or supporting militants through financing, supplying weapons or providing logistical support.

On Friday, judges convicted 386 of them, while two were acquitted, eight were acquitted and the cases of 112 suspects were postponed, officials said.

Five of the defendants had pleaded guilty at the start of the trials to charges that included selling livestock, supplying food and information to militant groups.

The US carried out airstrikes in the northern state of Sokoto on Christmas Day to target an Islamic militant group known as Lakurawa, after President Donald Trump claimed that Christians were being persecuted in Nigeria.

The government denied Trump's claim, saying people of all faiths and none were victims of the violence./CNA, translated by BBC





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