Militants attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria from four fronts overnight with the crescendo of warfare booming cannon and whooshing rockets continuing Sunday, witnesses said, according to AP. The third attack in a week on Maiduguri comes amid unconfirmed reports that a Chadian jet fighter helped bomb the militants out of Gamboru on Nigeria's northeast border with Cameroon. Boko Haram insurgents had held the trading center since August. Chadian forces on Thursday liberated Malumfatori, another border town that was under the sway of Boko Haram for months. African leaders at a summit Saturday authorized the creation of a 7,500-strong force from Nigeria and its four neighbors to confront the spreading uprising by Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram group. Trapped residents in Maiduguri said they could not sleep for the noise from cannon, rockets and submachine gunfire that began Saturday night.
