Up to 65 000 people on run in Nigeria
UP to 65,000 people in northeastern Nigeria have fled their homes after an assault by armed groups on a border town, while attacks that appear to be targeted have forced a temporary halt to aid operations, U.N. agencies said. Local officials and a resident said that at least eight people had been killed in the attack on Damasak by suspected Islamists and that hundreds had fled across the border to Niger, a few kilometres away. "Following the latest attack on Wednesday 14 April, the third in just seven days, up to 80 per cent of the town's population -- which…
