The attack, which also wounded dozens of people, struck a camp for internally displaced people and a nearby market.

The raid could increase tension between the country’s military and the United Nations as each struggles to respond to a war with Boko Haram terrorists.

The shootings were likely to be linked to drug gangs active in both Nigeria and South Africa, a police official said.

Photographs of home, thousands of miles apart.

For this issue, a child forced to kill by Boko Haram.

The photographer Glenna Gordon accompanied the Nigerian military to regions where Islamist militants have terrorized residents.

The four children, from a fishing village in Nigeria, were among thousands abducted by Boko Haram and trained as soldiers. They learned to survive, but only by forgetting who they were.

African women have been reducing meals, finding new trades, selling possessions, dispersing children before they ask the world for help.

Artists worldwide battle illegal sales of their work. But Nigeria’s piracy is so ingrained that music thieves even worry about rip-offs of their rip-offs.

Anxious parents of the 82 Chibok girls looked for signs of how deeply their daughters might have changed in the hands of the extremists.