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Nigerian military’s secret abortion program: Reuters investigation highlights

By Reuters
08 December 2022   |   9:20 am
Since at least 2013, the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, terminating at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, many of whom had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants, according to dozens of witness accounts and documentation reviewed by Reuters.

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