Tags: Boko Haram

Despite lack of progress in the search for the missing schoolgirls, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered new investigations in hopes that this time, they would be able to rescue the girls.

The United States is sending 300 U.S. troops, along with surveillance drones, to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort to counter the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

President Francois Hollande said on Monday that French air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria would be necessary.