Over 11,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled Nigeria and taken shelter in neighbouring Chad in the last 10 days after a new wave of brutal attacks by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern part of the country, the UN said on Tuesday.
The Islamist group attacked the town of Baga on January 3, and razed it and at least 16 surrounding settlements, feared to be the worst massacre since Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency began in 2009.