Car Bombing Kills 4 in Nigerian Christian Neighborhood

A suicide car bomber killed at least four people Sunday in a Christian neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano.   Police say the blast happened on a street with a number of bars and restaurants.   No one has claimed responsibility. But suspicion is likely to fall on Boko Haram - the Islamic militant group using terrorism to set up a conservative Islamic state in northern Nigeria.   Boko Haram is still holding 276 schoolgirls hostage, having kidnapped them from...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - dimanche 18 mai 2014