Borno Governor: Boko Haram's Small Number's Have Big Impact

Kashim Shettima, state governor of Borno, the Nigerian region considered the base for Boko Haram militants, says the group's small numbers belie its enormously destructive impact. "Just a band of terrorists — 50, 100 — can really hold a whole community to ransom because ... they are indigenous to that land [and] they are the ones setting the pace of the war," he said in an interview with VOA's Hausa Service. While the radical militants...

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