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Boko Haram has also launched attacks in the Nigerian capital Abuja [Xinhua]
Police sources in the city – believed to be the birthplace of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram – said that three female suicide bombers detonated their explosives and killed seven people Friday morning.
On Thursday, two male suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the city and killed 32 Muslim worshipers.
A suicide bombing attack killed at least 70 people in the city last week.
The number of suicide bombing attacks have increased in the past few months as the Nigerian military and security forces – boosted by regional and Western support – retake lost territory.
On October 2, Boko Haram carried out a series of bomb attacks which killed at least 20 and injured dozens in the capital Abuja.
On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama said that he would boost the number of American military personnel in Nigeria and Cameroon from 90 to 300. The US troops will provide training and logistical support to both the Nigerian and Cameroonian armies.
The US military will also dispatch predator drones to assist Nigeria and Cameroon with “intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance”.
Large swathes of the northeastern province of Borno have exchanged hands repeatedly over the course of the past year but President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to end the threat of Boko Haram by the beginning of 2016.
Boko Haram, which still controls considerable territory in northeastern Nigeria, has come under repeated attacks from the Nigerian, Chadian and Cameroonian armies in recent weeks.
Although African nations have launched a combined military effort, sanctioned by the African Union and supported in part by Washington, to destroy the militant group, Boko Haram still retains significant offensive capabilities to strike at towns in Borno.
In March, the Boko Haram leadership announced it had declared allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS).
The BRICS Post with inputs from Agencies
