Over 100 Civilians Killed after Nigerian Military Airstrike Hits Yobe Market
Photo via: Yobo State Govt. – per A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadi rebels struck a local market in northeastern Nigeria, killing over 100 civilians and injuring many others. Officials confirmed it was a misfire, but did not provide further details. Survivors reported that at least 100 people were killed in the airstrike on Saturday in a village in Yobe state. Yobe borders Borno state, the epicenter of the escalating jihadi uprising. The jihadi are an armed terrorist group who uphold radical Salafi-Islamist agendas and have destroyed the area for over a decade. “We have their pictures and they include children,” Isa Sanusi, a Nigeria director of Amnesty International, a global non-governmental organization that focuses on human rights, said, referring to the incident. “We are in touch with people that are there, we spoke with the hospital,” he said. “We spoke with the person in charge of casualties, and we spoke with the victims.” An employee at the Geidam Genera...