Bornu

American  

[bawr-noo] / ˈbɔr nu /

noun

1. a former sultanate in Africa, SW of Lake Chad: now largely a province in Nigeria.

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Example Sentences

We don’t know the identity of the two people handed over to Caravaggio, but many enslaved people who worked in a domestic context in Malta were from Bornu, which spanned parts of present-day Nigeria and Chad.

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And the Sudanese military has faced accusations of negligence, as in Fata Bornu, or even being complicit.

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One of the protests took place in Fata Bornu.

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After the attack on Fata Bornu on July 13, the United Nations peacekeeping mission, which is run jointly with the African Union, framed the violence as a seasonal dispute between herders and pastoralists.

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An official delegation visited Fata Bornu and promised to investigate the attack.

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