Nigeria
Attack kills 30 soldiers f-rom Niger and two f-rom Nigeria on countries' border near city of Bossa, Niger officials say.
When Boko Haram snatched 276 schoolgirls f-rom a school in Nigeria, their families led a global campaign to bring them back. Two years on, distraught relatives live in hope they will return, but also fear that they may have lost their daughters to the group’s brainwashing. Monica Mark reports f-rom Abuja for BuzzFeed News.
Nearly two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states are struggling to pay civil servants' salaries despite receiving a government bailout, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman quoted him as saying on Thursday.
Babies died of “a fever.” Older children were “bitten by a snake.”
Over 200 girls were captured f-rom a Nigerian boarding school in April 2014. But the kidnapping spree didn’t stop there.