Boko Haram Militants Kill Aid Workers at Military Base in Nigeria
By REUTERSMARCH 2, 2018
ABUJA, Nigeria — Boko Haram militants have killed at least 11 people, including three aid workers, in an attack on a military base
near a camp for displaced people in the northeastern state of Borno in Nigeria, according to the United Nations migration agency.
Last year, a Nigerian fighter jet, searching for Boko Haram members, accidentally
bombed the camp for displaced people in Rann, killing up to 170 people.
The raid Thursday night in the town of Rann, near the border with Cameroon, was the latest high-profile attack by militants in Nigeria’s northeast,
and it comes less than two weeks after the abduction of 110 girls from a school in the town of Dapchi in neighboring Yobe State.
Two of the aid workers who died in Rann were contractors with the International Organization for Migration
and were working as coordinators at the camp for 55,000 displaced people, the United Nations said.
Thursday’s attack in Rann was a further setback for President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in May 2015 vowing to improve security
and who has repeatedly said that the Boko Haram insurgency has been defeated.
Although it has failed to control large areas of land since then, Boko Haram continues to carry out suicide bombings
and gun raids in northeast Nigeria, as well as in Cameroon, Chad and Niger.