BOKO HARAM
Thirty-five people, including two soldiers and a policeman, have been killed in two separate gunfights between security forces and members of the militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, in Borno State.
The killings took place on Sunday when the sect members launched attacks on a riot police base in Bama, a town close to the Cameroun border, and the Multi-National Joint Task Force base in Malam Fatori.
A third incident in Gwoza, another Borno State community, was said to have resulted in the death of unspecified number of Boko Haram commanders.
They all took place just as the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said that after a preliminary investigation, she was convinced that acts attributed to Boko Haram amounted to crimes against humanity.
