Nothing new, but indeed sad..Schools targeted
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/wo...er=rss&emc=rss
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The teenager in the immaculate white robe stood in the ruins of what had been his school. There were no classrooms, no desks or chairs, no intact blackboards — there was, in fact, no longer any reason for him to be there.
Yet the teenager, Aruna Mustapha, and a friend had come to sign in anyway, just as they did every morning before the fire, expressing a hunger for education and a frustration with the insurgents bent on preventing it.
“We can’t stay at home any longer; we want to come to school, to learn,” explained Aruna, 16. “I’m fed up. I want to be in school.”
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In recent weeks, at least eight schools have been firebombed, apparently the work of Boko Haram, the Islamist group waging a deadly war against the Nigerian government and suspected of cultivating links with Al Qaeda’s affiliates in the region. The group’s very name is a rallying cry against schools — “Boko” means “book” or “Western learning” in the Hausa language, and “haram” is Arabic for forbidden — but it has never gone after them to this degree before, analysts say.
Reminds me of the Swahili proverb that says, "When two bull elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled."
It is the children who are the grass in the case and their future is being trampled into dust.
Shots Fired by US Embassy in Nigeria; No Injuries
A knew this would happen, eventually ..........
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The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria's capital says there were gunshots fired near its offices, though no one was injured.
A statement from the embassy Monday said it "believed there were shots fired" and that police arrested two people afterward. Abuja police spokesman Jimoh Moshood said he had no information about any shooting in the area, nor any knowledge of any arrests.
Security remains a concern in Nigeria as a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram continues a wave of killings across the nation's Muslim north. A suicide car bombing by the sect in August attacked the United Nations' headquarters in Abuja — which sits on the same road as the embassy.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...0#.T3DFzGEgcmc