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| Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari: US 'aiding' Boko Haram with arms ban | |
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| The US has "aided and abetted" the Boko Haram Islamist militant group by refusing to provide weapons to Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari says. | |
| A US law prevents the government from selling arms to countries which fail to tackle human rights abuses. | |
| Mr Buhari met President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday to seek further assistance. | |
| Boko Haram has killed some 10,000 people since 2009 and has also kidnapped hundreds of girls and women. | Boko Haram has killed some 10,000 people since 2009 and has also kidnapped hundreds of girls and women. |
| Last month, human rights group Amnesty International said that some 8,000 men and boys had died in Nigerian military custody after being detained as suspected militants. | |
| The military rejected this allegation, Nigeria's president promised an investigation but there have been no further details. | |
| The US has previously promised some $5m (£3.2m) in military assistance to the regional coalition helping to fight Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. | |
| However, Mr Buhari heavily criticised the US, especially the Leahy Law, which links military sales to human rights. | |
| The Nigerian military did "not possess the appropriate weapons and technology which we could have had if the so-called human rights violations had not been an obstacle," he told the United States Institute of Peace on Wednesday. | |
| "Unwittingly, and I dare say unintentionally, the application of the Leahy Law Amendment by the United States government has aided and abetted the Boko Haram terrorists." | |
| In the latest suspected Boko Haram attack, at least 29 people were killed in bomb blasts at two bus stations in the north-eastern city of Gombe on Wednesday. | |
| At least 11 people were earlier killed in the Cameroonian town of Maroua, just over the border from Gombe. | |
| Boko Haram last year seized a huge area of north-eastern Nigeria, before being beaten back by a regional coalition, including Cameroon, Chad and Niger. | |
| Mr Buhari was elected in March, partly on a pledge to defeat Boko Haram. | |
| Boko Haram at a glance | |
| Why Boko Haram remains a threat | |
| Who are Boko Haram? |