Nigerian Jet Mistakenly Bombs Refugee Camp, Killing Scores

DAKAR, Senegal — A Nigerian fighter jet searching for Boko Haram members on Tuesday accidentally bombed a camp for displaced people who had fled the militants, killing dozens of camp residents and at least six humanitarian workers, and wounding numerous others. The bombing struck a government-run camp in Rann, Nigeria, near the Cameroonian and Chadian borders, an area where…

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Refugee from Ghana survives extreme cold to reach Canada

Seidu Mohammad is recovering in hospital after trying to reach the border crossing at Emerson on Christmas Eve when the temperature was -20 C. WINNIPEG, CANADA—A man from Ghana expects to lose most of his fingers after nearly freezing to death last month while trudging from North Dakota to Manitoba through hip-deep snow and biting cold to claim refugee…

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