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Senators to probe rape charges

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    The Nigerian senate has ordered an investigation into reports that soldiers on peacekeeping duty in the Niger Delta region have raped and assaulted women there, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

    Soldiers were deployed in Choba in the oil-producing region following protests by youths against an oil company there. The senate told its defence committee to investigate the allegations after a Choba senator made them and a newspaper reportedly published photographs of women being raped by soldiers, the BBC said.

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