Nigeria

Boko Haram militants stormed the Liman Kara riot police training academy near Gwoza in Borno state, one of only two such facilities in Nigeria. A witness claimed that the police trainees, said to number at least 290, fled after hundreds of militants appeared on the scene. The UK is planning to send three Tornado surveillance aircraft to help Nigerian authorities find the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram this spring.

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