i'm sure they all knew about boko haram because boko haram has been violent for five years.they didit's not that they did not know. they did not care enough. >> advising governments there, advising governmenting here, how do you explain--did you notice this very different reaction to events in the same span of days, and how did you explain it? >> well, i think it starts with the area itself. you have in france you have the reaction of the government. in nigeria the people say that the government was not involved directly but has number of a of people in place. they have the army, and as the elections appear for president in nigeria, this is an area that is outside of government attention. the nigerian military is the first responsible. after that as has been my--as my colleague noted we don't pay that much attention to africa the same way we do to things in europe, particularly in europe or the larger countries of asia. >> aminu gamawa, do you agree that this latest attack represents something different? a kind of escalation, a kind of extremity that is different from the ki

it was nine months ago that the #bringourgirlshome drew the world's attention to boko haram's abduction of some 270 schoolgirls, most of whom remain unaccounted for, though some have escaped and described their ordeal. >> when i returned home after might escape, people would tell me not to dwell on my experiences. my dreams are filled with regret for announcing a religion instead of enduring the abuse of the insurgents. >> we'll host a roundtable discussion on boko haram in nigeria with amnesty international's adotei akwei human rights watch rona peligal, of human rights watch, and professor horace campbell, author of "the menace of boko , haram and fundamentalism in nigeria." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. police in france, belgium and germany have made arrests over the past 24 hours in a series of raids targeting suspected islamic militants. in belgium, police killed two men who reportedly opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids. police say the men recently returned from syria. 13 other

when we come back, boko haram in nigeria. stay with us. >> this is democracy now!democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> we turn now to nigeria, where satellite images and witness accounts have emerged of what amnesty international calls the "catastrophic destruction" from a massacre in northern nigeria. hundreds are feared dead after boko haram militants attacked baga and surrounding areas earlier this month. before and after images taken of two adjacent towns show thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed. amnesty says one town was completely wiped off the map. one witness who managed to flee told amnesty -- "i don't know how many, but there were bodies everywhere we looked." the nigerian military has claimed a toll as low as 150 but it could be as high as 2,000. >> on thursday, president obama and british prime minister david cameron issued a joint statement referencing the boko haram slaughter, writing -- "whether we are facing lone fanatics or terrorist organizations such as al-qaeda islamic state or boko haram, we

boko haram has been around since 2002. when it comes to starting the international conversation on boko haram, are we ready? >> people watching nigeria have been paying close attention to boko haram. the abuse is intensifying in 2009 when the nigerian government killed the leader and they have been retaliating and rebelling against the government since that time in a public way. >> some would describe the u.s. response as muted. how would you respond to that? >> i think the u.s. has been - i served in the obama administration since 2013. there's a reluctance to be critical. part of the problem is that nigerian security force, army task force, are not up to the job, they are corrupt. they are kind of weak? >> where does it come from. >> nigeria is an ally it's important to the united states. it's an important place. we need to be lal to those principles or interests and the government needs to do nor protect its own people. >> what is the end goal for boko haram. >> it imposes a strict imposition of shia law and impose a ca

jonathan betz looks at boko haram, and how it began. >> reporter: this is believed to be a boko haramning camp where members learn how to use weapons, it was founded 10 years ago in north-east nigeria. the goal is to create an islamic state, and is like i.s.i.l. which broadened reach from syria into iraq. boko haram expanded its activistsies to neighbouring niger, chad and cameroon. under their leader they have become violence. staging an armed campaign against the government and civilians in the north of the country. loosely translated the name means western education is forbidden. they have stepped up attacks on schools. abducting nearly 300 schoolgirls from chibok in april. most of those girls are missing. al jazeera took the pictures in march after four attacks killed more than 100 students. in one 32 students were killed at a boarding school. a building on that campus was burnt down. attacks like that are common in areas where boko haram operates. recently released satellite images by amnesty international shows the extend of damage survivors from the 3rd january attack say boko

i think with bo boko haram reach'-- i think boko haram's reach has extended. it will require international forces to address this very real concern. >> a story that has been underreported over the last few days but clearly very serious in northern nigeria. you're watching bbc world news america. still to come, one of the black boxes for the air asia flight crashed into the java sea has been recovered. investigators hope it could unravel the mystery of exactly what happened. the bbc has learned that the so-called islamic state movement is trying to recruit fighters in afghanistan. a former taliban commander is said to have joined the movement. >> afghan forces are on high alert in their headquarters. there have already been several taliban attack since revision american forces left the base last month. now the afghan troops may be training to fight a new enemy. a former taliban commander has changed sides. the his merchants -- the emergence of the so-called islamic state is a disturbing sign of how much there was yet to do when they left. tribal elders were cal

because this is a town that was taken over by boko haram. how they were able to verify that only 150 people? so the best i think, figure you can take is from the people who were in the town who suffered that attack and who were able to flee. because they told us after they were fleeing, that boko haram was following them and shooting at them and at other people. but the government says that only 150 people were killed. >> yeah i suppose that was the point they were making that many of them had fled before boko haram got in. >> and another question to ask, boko haram went into the town. if the town was empty, why then burn the town down? they would just take it over if the town was empty. so presumably there were people in there, and that was why, in order to instill terror into them is to burn down the town and then kill them and that is what boko haram has been doing for quite a long time. >> there are elections in -- it's a month precisely, now, isn't it? a month's time. can we gauge how much damage this is doing to the government or not,

>> boko haram's largest and most destructive attack yet satellite images show homes clinics and schools in ruins. >> you are watching al jazeera in doha. president hollande vows france will protect all religions as funerals are held for the charlie hebdo cartoonists killed in last week's attack. >> almost 100,000 people forced from homes as fierce floods his mozambique and ma law wee. a welcome for pope francis in the philippines. >> satellite images show the deadliest massacre in the history of boko haram on two towns in northern nigeria giving a look at a region which has become extremely dangerous and difficult to access. this was done before the armed group moved in, vegetation shaded in red. all around, you see streets and buildings. here's the same town on january 7. just look at that, an estimated 3,000 homes as well as schools and clinics destroyed. it's a similar seen three miles away. here it is on the second of january, another thriving down and this is how it looks five days later after attacks by boko haram. 20,000 people have fled the area. amnesty international has severe

boko haram does not control oil resources. they are or were lashing out at the representatives of a kleptocratic system. but when people go to extremes, when they turn to violence, often the whole situation spins out of control. i think that is what we have seen in nigeria and iraq, and what we saw in northern ireland. >> there is so much in the wake of the paris attacks about islamic radicalization. when you look at a country like yemen, a link between corruption and the fueling of extremism -- >> what really struck me is the analysis that i derived on afghanistan resonated from people with half a dozen other countries around the world, in each of which there was a violent religious insurgency. doing this research, i found there is a link between this issue of public corruption which is both a material issue and a moral issue and the rise of militant. chemical religion. you see it in islam today. you see it in afghanistan pakistan, central asia, nigeria. but you also, going back historically, can see it in the rise of militan

weeks after boko haram fighters were chased out the area is largely deserted. security forces are in charge now but despite their presence most people who fled are staying away. many businesses remain shut. dashing hopes of any quick return to normalcy. the central market traders are clearing debris from their shops. a large section of the market was set on fire hours after boko haram took control. hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost. and the traders here face an uncertain future. >> it's difficult to say if some will ever come back to this town. many traders have lost everything. money, goods and customers yet some despite their losses come to clear the debris, hoping for some miracle. but the truth is people are desperate. >> the boko haram history of attacking towns and villages repeatedly people are left with one thing hope, hope that the victories by the military and vigilanties will hold. >> the trial for tsarnaev who is accused of the bombings the the boston marathon will begin. >> now 21 he had pled not guilty to the 20 federal charges inclu

it's been under constant attack by the mill stand group boko haram. the death toll there depends on the source. some say 2,000 the military at 150. that encapsulates the problem with covering this story. very little is verifiable, because much that have corner of the country is under boko haram's control. our only real window comes from satellite imagery because the region is inaccessible to the authorities let alone the media. mobile phones haven't worked there for months, so social media has no way to report what is happening. northeast nigeria is a black hole for information which is one reason this story is not getting the coverage it deserves. the other is the president good luck jonathan doesn't want boko haram setting the agenda before the election and doesn't want to spend time talking to journalists about the group. our starting point this week is the capitol. capitol. >> boko haram is in the remotest parts of the country northern nigeria, where much of the media is absent. if we are absent, then once we get to the other output or none at all

and then this is how it looks five days lafr after the boko haram a -- later, after the boko haram attacks. 20,000 fled the area. it's received testimony from survivors of the latest acts. >> witnesses are telling us that boko haram were there on saturday more than a week ago. they went house to house pulling people out of their homes and shooting them in the streets. we have reports from eyewitnesss that they tried to flee. boko haram fighters were waiting if the trees in the surrounding bush. civilians were shot as they tried to flee the attack. >> we'll be live in abuja a little later on for more on the tacks, revealing more about the situation in the north of the country. >> let's get our high on the top story. several have been killed in africa. 70,000 have been made homeless in malawi. 20,000 displaced in mozambique. >> reporter: strong event like this forced thousands out of the home in mozambique. desperate villages could do nothing if the water washed away all they had. dozens of children were killed. >> we have unconfirmed reports that more than 25 children were drowned in the wa

boko haram is high on the agenda at african union summit. a force is called for to eradicate the group. the au chief warned the group is a threat beyond the nigeria borders. the new african union chairman was elected. we are at the headquarters in addaddinadd is ethiopia. >> yesterday the meeting held, the security council held a meeting on the sidelines of this summit discussing boko haram in detail and discussing the need for this regional force to fight boko haram. the chadian president who spoke to him after this meeting say that chad is ready to continue, is not going forward with any resolution it has the resources and will and called on other african countries to give resources and help in this fight against boko haram. equally important and another topic of discussion here focus is south sudan and the peace talks there that have taken so long. the heads of state meeting yesterday, as well and it was postponed at the last minute, because the leaders said that they wanted time for the other two leaders to cult some more. joining me to

or, how do you conduct elections in areas where boko haram is active? these are difficult questions, and they are difficult questions that demand the attention of the nigerian government. to secure that attention may have been one of the reasons for the secretary's visit to lagos. and as you say, it is unusual for a secretary of state to visit a foreign country immediately before elections. >> how do you see american relations with nigeria moving forward? >> well, the quality of these upcoming elections will be important. so too will be important is how the nigerian government responds to postelectoral violence. there's a long trash in nigeria of relatively peaceful polling followed by widespread violence once the results are announced. in some cases that violence has been stimulated or promoted by the security services. how the security services behavior, will also be an important element here. >> a lot of important things going on in the most populace country in africa and the biggest economy so it's important for the united states and the rest of the

joining the fight against boko haram, chad sense troops to cameroon to help combat the armed group. >> thousands rally for peace in ukraine as fighting between the army and pro-russian rebels intensifies in the east of the country. >> we'll begin with more breaking news out of libya where the self declared government in tripoli says it will not attend u.n. backed talks in geneva next week but is willing to negotiate if those talks are moved to libya. the rival eelected government has declared a ceasefire while the tripoli based government declared one friday. in the last three months, heavy fighting between militia's has killed 600 people. >> we are joined now from london. when we last spoke to you in the last hour, we talked about the problems that have beset libya right now. i suppose this is a testament to those problems when we hear that one of the self-declared ghosts said it is not going to take part in the talks if they're in geneva. what do you make of that? >> on the one hand, yes this is the g.n.c. attempt to go reject and scuttle the geneva talks yet on the other hand, it's

. >> we begin with news from africa where boko haram where boko haram fighters have attacks a basis base in cameroon. we have more in the nigerian capitol abuja. tell us more about this attack and tell us why if boko haram was able to attack a military base. >> actually, according to government officials, they have killed more than 200 boko haram fighters. they're not talking about how many soldiers have died in that attack. but this is also not the first time cameroon army base has been attacked late last year we saw boko haram contracting over into cameroon and attacking a military base there. now, on the niger nigerian side boko haram has attacked several times, and they're already over another military outpost. >> thank you very much for that. let's go to the phone line. we're joined by cameroon's minister in the capitol thanks very much, indeed, for joining us minister. we're hearing that cameroon forces managed to kill more than 200 boko haram fighters in that attack. can you tell us what happened? >> yes i'm delighted and pleased to confirm this information. in the early hours thi

now the target of boko haram has expanded. initially it was security forces now they're attacking military bases both within nigeria and outside of it, as we just heard in cameroon. simply because the military in those countries are trying to take back territory. push back boko haram in areas they're known to operate especially in northeast nigeria. this is not the first that bee co-had a ram attacked a base in cameroon. remember ten days ago it attacked a base in northeast nigeria where soldiers from chad and cameroon were supposed to be operating. although during the attack the base contained only mostly nigerian soldiers at the time. >> ahmed, how much coordination is there between the nigerian authorities and cameroon authorities in fighting boko haram, and have they said anything on the latest attack against their military? >> well, basically they say there is some form of coordination between the two countries. as we all know everyone country makes decisions that it seems necessary to defend it's own people and defend it

the nigeria militants known as boko haram stepped up their campaign of violence. a wave of death forcing small children to become human bombs. >>> and the law against the law. four decades after being marked for speaking out against his own colleagues, what his experience tell us us about ferguson and other flashpoints between communities and the police. >> you don't talk about your own kind. you don't expose your own kind or maybe we'll expose you. >> franc serpico on police, brutality and the thin blue >>> and thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen, it is wednesday now in paris. it's mourning and the defiance against violent attackers entering a new day. the satirical magazine targeted last week "charlie hebdo" rushed to put out 3 million copies of its new edition. the cover features a drawing of the new mohammed, a dear in his eye, the captions "i am charlie", and "all forgiven." there's another image emerging, a video showing the gun me after the attack -- gunmen after the attack. you see them as they reload and try to escape down a narrow street. the police off

earlier this month, boko haram decimated villages.nd it was in a remote town in northern giant you're at that was less than 200 kilometers -- in northern nigeria that was less than 200 kilometers from the border. >> i am nigerian. a message of support. the deadliest attack yet, which left as many as 2000 civilians dead. this terror campaign is sitting too close to home. >> i had someone close to me, my cousin, who was slain, killed and butchered by boko haram on january 7 when they attacked the village. they came and massacred the people of the village, including my cousin and three of his children. they massacred over 100 people in the village and they took all of the women to use them as sec slaves. --sex slaves. >> the nigerian government is working its boko haram, who it sees as creating -- attempting to create an islamic state. >> -- in recent groups -- months, the insurgent group has scorched villages, taking hostages, and carried out bombings. >> let's take a look at our headlines. eu foreign ministers meet in brussels to discu

. >> are these children who are already active in boko haram?yes some are but when you go back, early last year, late last year, we've seen a number of kidnappings by boko haram they've kidnapped boys and girls and taken them to their camps. a lot of people think that some of these girls who were abducted from their homes are being used by boko haram to detonate these devices. some of them may be active boko haram members in north east nigeria. >> every time i talk to you by another atrocity by boko haram the question is what is the government doing about this? are they any closer controlling this armed group? >> well, the government here says it's doing everything it can to control boko haram but what we've seen over the last two or three years, boko haram is getting bolder. they choose the place they're going to attack and then attack them. we hear from residents who say they're invaded by boko haram and then hours after hours after the security services arrive to find that boko haram has done the damage that they wanted to do. virtually peopl

his brother was killed by boko haram, and he had to check on the family. their village was attacked again. i don't know if he's dead or alive. >> aid workers warn that refugee refugees are a crisis in the making. for now how to put a stop to boko haram campaign of pillage and bloodshed. al jazeera chad. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of its three journalist who is have now been imprisoned in egypt for 399 days. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were wrongly accused of colluding with the outlaw muslim brother hood. president al sisi said he would like to see the case resolved. >>> the new greek government said it will not continue with stricter austerity measures. finance minister held talks with the head of the euro group on friday the head of the group said that the greek people have gone through a lot. however, a lot of progress has been made putting greece back on track, and it is important to the to lose this practicing. >> thousands of supporters are rallying in the capitol of madrid. the movement is hoping to repeat the s

that links it to nigeria is currently closed by boko haram. >>> boko haram is high on the agenda atfrican union summit in the ethiopian capitol. members calling for 7.5 thousand troops to eradicate the group. >>> the government in the central african republic has rejected a ceasefire deal signed by rebel fighters. it also demands a trags situational government to be appointed to replace the interim president. thousands of people have die interested in the violence that has gripped car, since the seleka seized fire. >>> the afghan taliban says it carried out a shooting that killed three american contractors and an afghan man. witnesses say the gunman was dressed in police uniform. an investigation is now underway. >>> the family of jailed al jazeera journalist peter greste have renewed their call for his freedom. they have just returned from egypt where peter has been held in prison for 398 days. he was wrongly accused along with two other al jazeera journal lists, mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed, of colluding with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. wayne haye reports from brisbane.

boko haram seizes new ground in nigeria, capturing a town in the northeast. there's as john kerry lands in lagos to work on ways to fight me not tinker -- to fight the militant group. we focus on france. 10 people go on trial for exploiting the country's richest woman. the l'oreal heiress' case goes up to the former president. nobody puts baby in a corner, bebe. the french version of "dirty dancing," on now in paris. ♪ an anti-austerity coalition has been formed in greece. celebrations started last night as the radical left-wing syriza party swept the snap election. syriza promised to put an end to crippling cutbacks. alexis tsipras is due to be sworn in as prime minister hours from now after he got backing from the right-wing independent greek party. more on the surprise alliance from athens. >> a source at syriza close to alexis tsipras confirmed an agreement has been found between syriza and the right-wing independent grace. it might look like an awkward marriage. syriza is a radical left party and independent greeks are right wing. they share one thing. t

no part of borno state has been ceded to boko haram fighters. but when you get reports like we are received today it contradicts what they're saying about the fight against boko haram. they remain adamant that this is a battle that they are winning despite reports day in and day out of attacks by the group. >> yvonne in the nigerian capitol. thank you. >>> vote something under way in greece. in a snap general election that could change the direction of the country. al jazeera sue is live for us in athens. this is billed as the make or break future of greece. >> we've been seeing quite a number of people turning up at the polling stations. it's sunday in greece, so we expect the numbers to increase as the day goes on. traffic will increase, certainly, but the numbers are looking pretty much as we expected. we don't know at the moment what the possible turn out is going to be and what the possible lead might be. the radical left party has been ahead in the polls now since last may. everybody expects them to win. it's a question whether they win ou

dealing with boko haram was high on the agenda during talks this tuesday. the u.n.ays that the group now poses a threat to all of central africa. >> fleeing boko haram, refugees continue to cross the nigerian border into chad escaping a spiral of violence. those seeking safety say it is a must impossible to estimate the number of those killed in recent boko haram attacks. >> 1000 people. 1000 people have been killed. others say 150 people were killed. we do not know how many people have been killed. >> the flow of refugees comes amid conflicting reports of the scale of violence of the boko haram offensive inbaga -- in baga the first week of january. with an escalation of boko haram violence underway, troops in chad are trying to hold islamist insurgents back. the u.n. security council says that the group threatens regional peace in central africa and must be -- >> the security council condemns in the strongest terms the most recent escalation in attacks perpetrated by boko haram. some of them reportedly involved children being coerced to act by boko haram as suicide

border attack by the boko haram soldiers. they say they were released as the army pursued the militants. the boko haram fighters are said to have fled back to nigeria. here is our report. >> charging troops to the rescue. cheered by the population, hundreds of soldiers in tanks and armored vehicles have pulled into northern cameroon. their mission, fight against the boko haram. they kidnapped 80 people. >> men and women are dying. children are dying. so we can't remain indifferent to the situation. that is why we have decided to deploy our troops. >> according to cameroon's defense ministry, 24 host alongs have been snatched back from the hands of boko haram. >> they were freed as defense forces pursued the attackers who were heading back to nigeria. >> the nigerian border is long and porous, and boko haram wants to carve out an islamic state across the region-on. it has seized several towns in nigeria's board. during a visit to germany, the chair of the local bodden has called for help. >> we have raised troops to intervene

would the finger be pointing again at boko haram? >> absolutely. the town has been hit several times. this is not the first time it has been hit this year, as well. remember less than 10 days ago there was an attack in the state and suspected boko haram members carried out the attack. although there is no claim of responsibility, but boko haram is known to be operating in that particular area and neighbors borno state, as well. >> we thank you for reporting. >> troops from chad have arrived in cameroon to fight the armed group boko haram just across the border in the north of nigeria. the convoy is now in the area in northern cameroon. they'll be joined by troops from nigeria and cameroon to fight boko haram. here's erika wood. >> troops from chad rolled by on their way to join soldiers from neighboring cameroon and nigeria. this is the beginning of a joint military seattle against boko haram. >> it is important to say that in war, there is dead, there is blood, there is sacrifice. but to us, we cannot be indifferent to what is going on, because we

region, fearing they would be targeted by boko haram. i believe that the cameroon president has also requested international support to fight boko haram. it's clear that more needs to be done and it's great to see engames now more engames now from the international community. >> i want to call your attention to something we've seen in the past suspected attacks by suicide bombers are we seeing a terrorism one ups manship by boko haram and isil? >> suicide bombings have been a part of boko haram's attacks for sometime. we saw suicide attacks in northeastern nigeria and other cities around nigeria, one targeted on two or three he occasions, another that boko haram took responsibility for. this is a consistent pattern but these suicide attacks and by girls do seem to be new seem to be increasing and they are there to strike fear into the civilian population of the northeast. boko haram attacks do occur now on an almost daily basis so really, we are seeing a tactic of terror used by boko haram. >> we should clarify that 10-year-olds cannot p

boko haram trying to take over the military base there and the soldiers pushed them back. 33 militants were killed in the attack. i think what's significant is that the head of boko hard action said specifically to cameroon that they should the president should be aware that he intends to unleash violence on the same scale as he has unleashed in nigeria. that's because the cameroon military is taking boko haram on. in the last month they've launched air strikes against boko haram. that is in sharp contrast to the actions of the chapian good and niger, all of whom have take own thousands of nigerian refugees but seem to be dealing with the boko haram issue more as a humanitarian threat and issue rather than a security one. to a certain extent allowing boko haram to sort of congregate at least along the border areas without sending in to take them down. there certainly hasn't been the coordinated effort promised in meetings between the various governments to actually combat boko hard action in any coordinated military fashion. >> yeah. the nigerian government may be working

a large section of the market was set on fire hours after boko haram fighters took control.s of thousands of dollars have been lost and the traders here face an uncertain future. >> it's difficult to say if some will ever come back to the town and many traders lost everything money, goods and even customers, yet, some despite their losses come back to clear debris hoping for some miracle but the truth is people are desperate. >> reporter: boko haram history of attacking towns anvild villages repeatedly people are left with only one thing hope hope that the resent victories by the military and vigilantes will hold i'm with al jazeera, northeast nigeria. >>> one woman has died and three others were injured from a land slide and destroyed 7 houses but managed to pull two children from the rubble alive and the houses were hit by the slide and were built on an old coal mine that closed 50 years ago. in the u.s. thousands of people have paid their respects at the funeral of new york police officer shot dead with police partner in brooklyn in december and both ambushed by a man who

areas -- >> so is the way to fight boko haram -- is the way to then combat boko haram as well as other groups in africa solely through military means, or do governments really have to look at the source and the root of what is behind the up serge and the longevity in the lives of these armed groups? >> well this group -- one has to first of all ask who is really arming them? who is providing the material they are using? they look well armed, well-fed well trained with sophisticated weapons in nigeria. they have even set up military barracks, and from that point of view that is a question that needs to be looked at. but you are right, that this cannot be done by just one country. this is a cross-border phenomenon at the moment and those countries need to get together. but we have seen this similar phenomenon in uganda south sudan, and drc. there were armed groups that were calling itself a christian movement but they were capturing children having child slavery, and so on and so forth. so boko haram seems to be of a similar character, and we have another one in kenya and somalia, the al

ayer of amnesty international wrote the attack on this area and surrounding towns looked like boko haram's most heinous act carried out by the group. the it was reported that the town was generally razed to the ground, and accounts are true, this marks a disturbing escalation of boko haram'sen onslaught against the population. a girl reportedly 10 years old walked into a marketplace and dealt necessitateddetonated a belt and killed her self and about 20 bystanders. >> boko haram ask holding a lot of territory. trying to expand into cameroon, using its own military to push back boko haram from those territories. >> last year there was international outcry when boko haram kidnapped 276 school girls. nigeria's president goodluck jonathan. >> i'm ali ali velshi. velshi. >> the sun isn't up yet, but david godeski is. godeski has been homeless in washington d.c. for nearly 7 years. last night, like most, he slept outside. with affordable housing getting increasingly scarce here there's been a spike in the number of homeless. churches, food pantries, the city, are all scrambling to meet the deman

his brother was killed by boko haram, and he had to check on the family. the village was attacked again. i don't know if he is dead or alive. >> aid workers warn nigeria that there is a crisis in the making with the potential to destabilize the region. for now national attention is not on the refugees but how to stop boko haram's campaign of pillage and bloodshed. >> well, the crisis in northern my year gentleman was the focus of a two-day africa-union summit. the leaders of 44 nations also discussed the various security threats on the continent and the fight against ebola. >> as widely expected, a regional force to fight boko haram. they have called to raise corns on the resurgence of conflict in counties like egypt libya mali democratic republic of congo and others. something else was noted kenya was pushing for the creation of an a human rights. now the idea is for the court to try african cases instead of firing them to the international criminal court. remember kenya's president's case was recently withdrawn from the icc prosecution but the vice presi

boko haram is chasing them out of their barracks.ting civilian populations and killing thousands. people are wondering what exactly are happening. >> why are areas in the north being attacked by people who claim they are an islamic group? >> that is one question that is bugging the minds of many nigerians. they have attacked mosques and church. when it started five years ago, they weren't targeting any other group except the police chiefs and local emoms who they say ideologies are different from them. and eventually they are now attacking even the muslims they say -- they want to protect, or the islam -- the sharia law they want to impose in the north of nigeria. so people are beginning to understand this is a different thing all together it's not about islam or sharia or setting up an islamic state. otherwise how could someone rape kidnap kill, name and even burn properties. that's the questions people especially the muslims are asking. >>> three countries affected most by the ebola outbreak are now recording a drop in the number o

niger gentleman has taken a lot of action to push back boko haram. boko haram is holding a lot of territory and pushing its area of oppression in cameroon. cameroon will use it's own military to push back boko haram from those territories. >> thank you very much for that. >>> now france is mobilizing 10,000 soldiers after last week's attacks on a satirical attack and a jewish supermarket. they'll protect the general population. an additional 5,000 police officers will be deployed to guard jewish schools. an unprecedented ramping up of security. rory challands is with us now. 10,000 soldiers on the street. 5,000 police deployed around jewish schools. france clearly feels itself to be still at risk? >> yes, that's right. and there is a specific reason why the government is taking these measures. basically because they are still worried that the attackers who struck in france last week may have had accomplices that have not been tracked down yet. now if you remember amedi coulibaly, the attacker who attacked the kosher supermarket on friday there, was a

away from boko haram in nigeria. in the northeastern town, that in nigeria earlier in the month for so many people to cross the border. it's believed that 12,000 people have traveled to chad in recent weeks. we have reports now from the chadian capitol. >> on the shores the crisis spawned by boko haram is laid bear beyond nigeria's borders. these are some of the victims of the group driven from their villages in the northeast. cross the border of chad is now their home. the camps are quickly filling up as hundreds of refugees cross the border daily. >> we've seen a massive inflict of niger nigerians into chad. most of them are civilians. >> the military they don't fight boko haram. they just runaway. >> the needs are immediate. some agencies are providing food and shelter. others like the international red cross are helping people to track down missing relatives. >> my husband brought us here and then returned home. his brother was killed by boko haram, and he had to check on the family. their village was attacked ag

at risk the entire regional efforts that have been put in place to fight boko haram.authorities are said to prefer troops from countries that are members of the economic community of west african state. cameroon and chad have also been affected by the boko haram attacks with chad link at risk because the road that links it to nigeria is currently closed by boko haram. >>> and nigeria was high on the agenda at the african union summit in oath openia which heard calls for a regional force to defeat boko haram. they installed robert mugabe as the new chairman. the 90-year-old took the rotating chairmanship during the summit. >>> it's long been known simply as prime evil. eugene de kock was sentenced to more than 200 years in prison. but after serving just over 20 he has been granted parole. tania page reports. >> reporter: eugene de kock confessed to 100 murders instances of torture, and fraud, at south africa's truth and reconciliation commission. he was known as prime evil one of the most brutal weapons. as commander of the police counter insurgency death squad he was