Mr. Buhari has said repeatedly that Boko Haram has been defeated, even as the group has carried out marketplace bombings in Nigeria, Cameroon and elsewhere in recent weeks. The camp has been largely inaccessible for months, he said, and the charity’s workers had reached Rann for the first time only in December. “A lot of people won’t survive the night.”Rann is known as a hotbed of Boko Haram activity. But with the end of a rainy season that had limited mobility, Boko Haram has regained a foothold. Armed with geographic coordinates of where they thought the fighters were assembled, the air force launched the bombing strike but hit the camp in error.

Source: New York Times January 17, 2017 17:36 UTC