Saturday

January 3, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

Boko Haram

Fleeing villagers from a remote part of the Borno State report that Boko Haram had three days prior kidnapped around 40 boys and young men. (BBC)

Arts and culture

Turkey permits the building of a Syriac church in Istanbul, the first construction of a Christian house of worship allowed since the founding of the modern republic in 1923. (Dawn) (BGN News)