Suspected Boko Haram militants 'kidnap 30 Nigerian children'

(BBC) Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped about 30 children in north-eastern Nigeria despite government claims of a truce, a local leader says.

At least 17 people were killed when the village of Mafa in Borno state came under attack on Thursday, he adds.

The Nigerian authorities have attributed the attack to bandits.

The group has taken more than 500 women and girls hostage since it began its bloody insurgency in 2009, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

The attack on Mafa, some 50 km (30 miles) east of the city of Maiduguri marks the latest in a series of assaults by Boko Haram militants, despite the government's declaration of a ceasefire earlier this month.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29782397


-- BBC 2014-10-27

Why can't a pack of bandits not be eliminated and removed of this earth?

If Nigeria thugs manage to scam the whole world with their practises, why not the BH thugs?

Today another Boko Haram outrage:

Suicide Bomber Kills Nearly 50 at Nigerian High School

By ALAN COWELL

NOV. 10, 2014

Hospital workers treated survivors of a suicide bombing at a high school in Potiskum, Nigeria, on Monday. Credit Adamu Adamu/Associated Press

A suicide bomber dressed as a student infiltrated the morning assembly at a high school in northern Nigeria on Monday and detonated explosives in a backpack, killing almost 50 students and teachers, according to news reports.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/africa/nigeria-suicide-bomber-boko-haram.html?_r=0