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(FRANKS..) Nigeria's military says it has freed another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest. One woman died and eight others were wounded as nine camps belonging to the Islamist insurgents were destroyed, army spokesman Col Sanu Usman said. He told the BBC more than 100 men and boys were among more than 160 rescued in operations on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the army said it had freed nearly 300 women and children. The girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014 were not among them. Thousands have been killed in northern Nigeria since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009 to create an Islamic state. In February, Nigeria's military, backed by troops from neighbouring countries, launched a major offensive against the Islamist fighters - and has recaptured much of the territory Boko Haram had taken in the previous year. Col Usman told the BBC Hausa service that those rescued were ...

(FRANKS..) Barack Obama has taken a tour of the Bob Marley museum in Jamaica after becoming the first US president to visit the country since 1982. To the strains of the late reggae star's One Love, Mr Obama was shown around the sprawling house in Kingston that was Mr Marley's final home. The US president said he was a fan of the musician, telling his museum guide: "I still have all the albums." Mr Obama is in Jamaica to meet the 15-member Caribbean Community bloc. But his first stop after landing in Kingston was the old Victorian-style house in central Kingston that Mr Marley called home between 1975 and his death in 1981. Mr Obama spent 20 minutes in the museum, which now houses artefacts from the singer's life including gold records and his Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. His arrival aboard Air Force One on Wednesday made him the first sitting US president to set foot in the country since Ronald Reagan visited 33 years ago. He was gree...