Battling Boko Haram in West Africa

A burned-out school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria, where 215 students were abducted by Boko Haram militants about a year ago.  (Henry Ikechukwu / EPA)

A boy cries after being inadvertently hit in the eye by a teacher’s whip at a school at a refugee camp in Chad. Chad is hosting thousands of refugees who have fled the Boko Haram fighting in Nigeria.   (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)

Children play by the makeshift mosque in the Zafaye refugee camp in Chad.  (Jerome Delay / Associated Press)

Soldiers arrive at the scene March 10 where a suspected female suicide bomber blew herself up at the crowded market in Maiduguru, Nigeria. The government said Boko Haram’s new allegiance to the Islamic State showed that the militants were weakening.   (Olatuni Omirin / AFP/Getty Images)