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Nigeria to step up local arms manufacture in Boko Haram fight

Nigeria said Friday it would step up domestic arms manufacture for the military to cut its reliance on foreign weaponry in its fight with Boko Haram Islamists.

President Muhammadu Buhari instructed the Defence Ministry to create "a modest military industrial complex for the local production of weapons to meet some of the requirements of the country's armed forces", his office said in a statement.

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