Report: 11,000 Dead in Boko Haram Insurgency

A new report says at least 11,000 people have been killed as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeastern Nigeria. The estimate comes from researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, who used media reports to compile a database on deadly violence in Nigeria going back to 1998. In an article published in The Washington Post, the researchers say the Boko Haram conflict has become one of the deadliest in the world.  They estimate...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mardi 7 octobre 2014