Boko Haram Militants Kill Aid Workers at Military Base in Nigeria<br />By REUTERSMARCH 2, 2018<br />ABUJA, Nigeria — Boko Haram militants have killed at least 11 people, including three aid workers, in an attack on a military base<br />near a camp for displaced people in the northeastern state of Borno in Nigeria, according to the United Nations migration agency.<br />Last year, a Nigerian fighter jet, searching for Boko Haram members, accidentally<br />bombed the camp for displaced people in Rann, killing up to 170 people.<br />The raid Thursday night in the town of Rann, near the border with Cameroon, was the latest high-profile attack by militants in Nigeria’s northeast,<br />and it comes less than two weeks after the abduction of 110 girls from a school in the town of Dapchi in neighboring Yobe State.<br />Two of the aid workers who died in Rann were contractors with the International Organization for Migration<br />and were working as coordinators at the camp for 55,000 displaced people, the United Nations said.<br />Thursday’s attack in Rann was a further setback for President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in May 2015 vowing to improve security<br />and who has repeatedly said that the Boko Haram insurgency has been defeated.<br />Although it has failed to control large areas of land since then, Boko Haram continues to carry out suicide bombings<br />and gun raids in northeast Nigeria, as well as in Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
