...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
in an attack attributed to Nigeria’s Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...jihadist group, a local leader said Friday.
The attack occurred in the village of Mangave Foya, said Abdoulaye Yerima Bakari, the head of the Dogba administrative region.
"They attacked the home of a district chief, whom they shot, as well as two other people" who were in the building, he said.
When the neighbours came out to investigate the gunfire, the assailants opened fire, killing three of them, he said.
A local self-defence group and the security forces, joined by some villagers, gave chase, killing five attackers and arresting three others, he added.