Nigeria Boko Haram blamed for raids despite truce claim

Suspected Islamist militants have shot and slaughtered people in three villages in north-east Nigeria, despite governments claim that it had agreed to a truce with them. 

Boko Haram fighters raided two villages on Saturday, and raised its flag in a third. 

The government said it would continue negotiating with Boko Haram, despite the alleged breach of the truce. 

It hopes the group will this week free more than 200 girls it seized in April. 

Boko Haram has not commented on the announcement made last Friday that a truce had been agreed, and that the militants would release the schoolgirls abducted from the remote north-eastern town of Chibok. 

Boko Haram is reportedly represented in the talks, taking place in neighbouring Chad, by Danladi Ahmadu. 

BBC