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Nigerian lawyer gets top UN peace prize
September 19 , 2017
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- A Nigerian lawyer who helped secure the release of more than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram was awarded one of the United Nations’ top prizes.
- Zannah Mustapha was given the annual Nansen award for his “crucial mediating” role as well as his work helping children affected in conflict-riven and impoverished northeast Nigeria.
- Founded in 2002
- Initially focused on opposing Western education
- Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
- Designated a terrorist group by US in 2013
- Declared a caliphate in areas it controlled in 2014
- Most territory now recaptured by army
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