<span style="color: #222222;">In Nigeria, at least 50 people were killed by militants yesterday around the town of Rann in Borno state, near the border with Cameroon.<br />''<br />''According to media reports, Boko Haram militants are behind the carnage.<br />''<br />''According to the United Nations, since 2009, Nigeria's northeast and Borno state, in particular, have been the centre of an insurgency led by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Millions have been displaced and thousands of people have died from attacks and the subsequent humanitarian crisis.<br />''<br />''The conflict has also spilled over into neighboring Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.</span><br />