More than three million people marched in France to protest the recent Paris terrorist attacks that left 17 dead. Farther south, in Nigeria, a 10-year-old girl detonated her suicide vest, killing 19 and herself and wounding at least a dozen more. The world did not tweet about it, nor did world leaders converge on Abuja in a show of sympathy and solidarity. It would be easy to chalk the difference in the global response to racism and/or media bias, says the author of this piece, but that would be, for the most part, incorrect. The real issue here, he writes, is "something far more sinister: the ravages of state failure":
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/boko-harams-quiet-destruction-of-northeast-nigeria/384416/
Tragic events are moving quickly in Nigeria, where Boko Haram is fighting for power. Since the above-linked piece was written, several hundred ~ maybe as many as 2,000 ~ were killed in the town of Baga and two female suicide bombers killed at least four and injured dozens in attacks in Potiskum.
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