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Report: 6 jailed in UAE for funding Boko Haram

Bulama Bukarti, Sub-Saharan Africa Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, tells Focus on Africa鈥檚 Bola Mosuro that the jailing of six Nigerians for supplying money to Boko Haram provides a window into how the militant group sources funding. Two men were given life by a court in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, while four others were given 10-year jail terms.

(Photo: The remains of a market in Borno State destroyed by a Boko Haram bombing attack in September 2018; Credit: AUDU ALI MARTE/AFP via Getty Images)

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