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    Ahead of election, Nigerians reassess an old promise of safety

    Feb 15, 2019 4 minutes

    Maryam Abubakar was bent in prayer when she heard the first blast crack over Kano’s central mosque, a sound so loud it felt like the stately building had cracked in two. Before she could react, she felt another explosion rip over her, and then the pop-pop-pop of approaching gunshots. Barefoot and trying not to trip on the bodies splayed all around her, she ran for the street.

    It was Nov. 28, 2014, and in the nerve center of Nigeria’s largest Muslim-majority city, the terror group Boko Haram was sending a message: Nowhere is safe.

    Afterward, residents say, they tiptoed through their own city.

    “You saw a woman in a hijab who you didn’t

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