Nigeria declares emergency in areas hit by Islamists

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on Tuesday in an effort to stem an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency.

Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified its attacks on security forces and government targets in its northeast stronghold this month, prompting Jonathan to declare an emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

Jonathan ordered his chief of defense to deploy extra soldiers to these states to improve security.

Dozens of Boko Haram fighters in buses and machine gun-mounted trucks laid siege to the town of Bama, in Borno, last week, freeing over 100 prison inmates and leaving 55 people dead, mostly police and other security forces.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/us-nigeria-emergency-idUSBRE94D0ZH20130514?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Also, 53 people killed in a fight between cattle herders and farmers

In the latest violence, 53 people were killed and 13 villages burnt in central Nigeria's Benue state on Tuesday.

The conflict, which started last week, is said to have been caused by a long-running dispute over land ownership between cattle herders and farmers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22533974

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22528257

[Bay Boy]

2. I hope they hit their...

...internet cafes first.