With a devastating attack that killed at least 18 people at a United Nations compound, a Nigerian sect has announced its arrival as the latest African group with growing links to global terrorist networks.

Boko Haram, a militantly anti-Western Islamist group that has conducted scores of assassinations and bombings in Nigeria in the past two years, has claimed responsibility for the massive car bomb on Friday at the UN headquarters in the capital, Abuja.

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