LAGOS: Amnesty International on Thursday urged Nigeria to act on claims soldiers and members of the civilian militia have raped women and girls in remote camps for people displaced by Boko Haram but the government said the rights monitor was repeating false accusations.

"This. . . is just a wild goose chase report, in essence . . . the report seemed like the one in 2015, and the one in 2016, and the one after that year, the same things being recycled again and again," presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said.

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