“Nigeria’s security agency said on Sunday it had made significant breakthroughs in the fight against Boko Haram and arrested 20 prominent members of the group accused of orchestrating deadly attacks. President Muhammadu Buhari has made halting Boko Haram’s six-year-old insurgency a priority. Boko Haram’s six-year-old uprising has left an estimated 20,000 people dead. At least 1,000 people have been killed by the group since Buhari’s election in March.”
Source: Nigeria Reports Boko Haram Arrests | Al Jazeera America