(Source: UN - United Nations) The Security Council today demanded that Boko Haram immediately halt all violence and all abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, as it strongly condemned the group's terrorist attacks in the Lake Chad Basin region and expressed deep concern that its activities were undermining peace and stability in West and Central Africa. Issuing presidential statement S/PRST/2016/7 on the eve of a regional security summit in Abuja, the 15-member Council - expressing alarm at Boko Haram's linkages with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) - also demanded the immediate release of the group's reported thousands of captives,...
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