attack// Nigeria’s Islamic militant group Boko Haram attacked the Nigerian town of Baga and at least 16 other towns, between January 3- 7. Over 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced, with many feared to have drowned while trying to cross Lake Chad and others trapped on islands in the lake. The attacks are said to have resulted in Boko Haram extending its control to over 70 per cent of Borno State. The attack began on 3 January when Boko Haram overran a military base that was the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force containing troops from Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. The militants then forced thousands of locals from the region and committed mass killings Cameroon’s government said that more than 10,000 panicstricken Cameroonians had fled areas that border Nigeria for safer locations in the wake of the attacks.