Now its just the district. We reject them as a leader and the initiative. Plus cracking down on tax dodgers, greece gets tough on the demands of the the under the demands of international creditors. Reports of covering up Lance Armstrong drug tests. Soldiers from niger and chad have joined the fight against boko haram. Theyve held to recapture the town of damasak. Niger and chads military vehicles into burn know state on saturday. This is the latest offensive by neighboring countries inside nigeria. On saturday the African Union agreed to a force of 8,000 troops with contingents from cameroon and benin. For nigerias neighbors the fight against boko haram has taken a new urgency operation from chad and niger in the group is underway. The objective is to push the fighters into a corner against the expected final onslaught. So far more than 30 towns and villages have been liberated from the fighters. Five years of violence has kept affected africas biggest economy. And there is also a fea
Students protest in myanmar against a new law that they say is stifling academic freedom. It started as one countrys fight against an armed group now theyve joined in the battle against boko haram and theyve already pushed the armed group out from the border. It was after chad and my Years Campaign that include attacks from both the ground and the United Forces retaking the town of captured by boko haram fighters in november. We have the latest from the nigerian border. Reporter they have agreed that the town of damasak has been arrested from boko haram control. Troops from chad and my niger went into the area and arrested control of the down of damasak. Theyre continue to go other areas as we speak. Sources say that the battle between the two sides have been fierce, and a lot of people have been killed, many fighters on the side of boko haram have been killed and fighters for chad and niger have been wounded and taken to the hospital. Boko harams presence in the northeastern part of n