Scores of lives lost in Nigerian Fighting, Boston's Response to Syrian Message!

So last  week we visited the war torn nation of Mali, today we mourn for those who lost their lives in the far northeastern corner of Nigeria. Where Al Jazeera reports:  Scores killed in Nigeria violence

Fighting between Nigeria's military and the armed group Boko Haram has left at least 185 people dead in a fishing community in Borno state in country's northeast, officials said on Sunday.

The fighting in Baga, which began on Friday, lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad, according to the AP news agency.

By Sunday, when government officials finally felt safe enough to see the destruction, homes, businesses and vehicles were burned throughout the area.

However, the Borno state military spokesman contested the casualty figures saying "there could have been some casualties, but it is unthinkable to say that 185 people died". Continue Reading

The fishing community where the fighting occured borders Lake Chad. From Wikipedia:

Lake Chad (French lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, the size of which has varied over the centuries. According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95% from about 1963 to 1998, but "the 2007 (satellite) image shows significant improvement over previous years."[4] Lake Chad is economically important, providing water to more than 30 million people living in the four countries surrounding it (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria) on the edge of the Sahara Desert. It is the largest lake in the Chad Basin

Map showing location of Lake Chad, the original lake lowest level and improvement

Lake Chad gave its name to the country of Chad. The name Chad is a local word[specify] meaning "large expanse of water", in other words, a "lake".

Lake Chad is the remnant of a former inland sea, palaeolake Mega-Chad. At its largest, sometime before 5000 BC, Lake Mega-Chad was the largest of four Saharan palaeolakes, and is estimated to have covered an area of 400,000 km2 (150,000 sq mi), larger than the Caspian Sea is today, and may have extended as far northeast as within 100 km (62 mi) of Faya-Largeau.

From the Boston Beacon comes Boston's response to a message sent to the city from a group of Syrians: Boston Responds to Syrian Message. People are people the world over, often we forget that and only react to the label Arab, Muslim, Syrian, Nigerian and forget that everyone  bleeds and dies the same all over the world!