Meanwhile in Nigeria

The following will give you an idea of what's happening over there while our attention is being taken away by the events in the Middle East and Ukraine.  You would think Nigeria had enough problems on its hands what with the Boko Haram terrorism on a daily basis, but now the country will have to deal with the Ebola crisis too.

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From WSJ:
U.S. Planes Searching for Boko Haram Abductees Spot Girls in Nigeria
Groups Were Seen Together in Remote Locations, Raising Hopes They are Kidnapped Students.....
.....The surveillance suggests that at least some of the 219 schoolgirls still held captive haven't been forced into marriage or sex slavery, as had been feared, but instead are being used as bargaining chips for the release of prisoners.
The U.S. aerial imagery matches what Nigerian officials say they hear from northern Nigerians who have interacted with the Islamist insurgency: that some of Boko Haram's most famous set of captives are getting special treatment, compared with the hundreds of other girls the group is suspected to have kidnapped. Boko Haram appears to have seen the schoolgirls as of higher value, given the global attention paid to their plight, those officials said......

Boko Haram become the hunted and the killed. Why can't the military just shoot them down instead of capturing them and slitting their throats?  Don't they have guns?  

From DailyMail:
Held down so their throats can be slit before being dumped into a shallow grave. But now it is Boko Haram ‘terrorists’ who are savagely executed by the Nigerian army 
Footage emerges of Nigerial soldiers appearing to slit throats of insurgents
Boko Haram suspects are held down next to mass grave before execution
Video obtained by Amnesty International amid claims of Nigerian 'war crimes'
Nigerian Defence says it is investigating the footage, taken in March

From BBC:
Nigeria's militant Islamist  group Boko Haram is accused of unleashing a new weapon of war - the female suicide bomber, fuelling concern that its insurgency has entered a more ruthless phase.
Four of them - all teenage girls - carried out attacks in the biggest northern city, Kano, last week, leading to social media sites going viral with speculation - dismissed as unfounded by the government - that Boko Haram had turned some of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April into human bombs.
At the same time, government spokesman Mike Omeri said the security forces had arrested three people in neighbouring Katsina state - including two girls aged 10 and 18 - with explosive belts strapped around them.

Now, the world has even more displaced people. UN's Humanitarian orgs are overwhelmed.

From ArabNews: 
Attacks by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s crisis-hit northeast have forced nearly 650,000 people from their homes, the United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) said Tuesday, an increase of nearly 200,000 since May.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) for its part reported that about 1,000 people trying to escape the fighting had fled to an uninhabited island on Lake Chad across Nigeria’s northeastern border.
“The group, mainly women and children, is in urgent need of food, water, shelter and medical care,” the UNHCR said.
They reached the remote island of Choua on Thursday after fleeing a Boko Haram attack in their hometown of Kolikolia, according to the refugee agency.
Chad has pledged to send two helicopters to the island to help evacuate the Nigerian refugees to a nearby area where they can be temporarily settled with host communities, the UNHCR added.
The refugee agency said it was sending staff to the area to coordinate the relief effort.....