UN Blacklists Boko Haram

The United Nations Security Council al Qaeda sanctions committee blacklisted Nigeria's Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, on Thursday after the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls, diplomats said.

The sanctions on the group include an international asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.





Until recently, Nigeria had been reluctant to seek
international help to combat Boko Haram.


Boko Haram kidnapped more than 250 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State on April 14 and has threatened to sell them into slavery.




Meanwhile, suspected gunmen from the group have shot dead 29 farm workers as they tilled their fields in a village in the remote northeast, a police source said on Thursday.




The source at police headquarters for Borno State, in the heart of the insurgency, said around 10 more people had been wounded in Wednesday's attack on Chukku Nguddoa, in which most of the village, including its grain
store, were razed.