More than 100 girls are reported missing after a Boko Haram school attack in northeast Nigeria this week that President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called a “national disaster”. But locals in the remote town of Dapchi, in Yobe state, said they had been left vulnerable to attack because soldiers had been withdrawn in the last few weeks. Terrified pupils fled the boarding school on Monday night when heavily armed fighters in military fatigues and turbans stormed the town, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”). “Our first step was to compile a comprehensive list of all the missing girls. “The location where the soldiers are stationed is between 30 to 40 kilometres (19-25 miles) from the school,” he said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 23, 2018 19:30 UTC