The dead include a pregnant woman and a baby.

The militants, believed to be from Boko Haram, arrived in trucks and  set fire to the cars filled with travelers.

Borno state governor Babagana Umara Zulum  was shocked at the sight of the charred corpses in the 18 burned-out vehicles that included a truck full of food.

An undisclosed  number of women and children were abducted.

The incident gives the lie to President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim to have defeated Boko Haram whose 11 year insurgency in northeast Nigeria has left more than 35 000 people dead and two million homeless. 

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The groups is calling this revenge for the October killing in Syria of its leader and spokesperson .

The 56-second piece of footage released by the so-called ISIS news agency Amaq does not give the names of the 11 victims.

They are believed to be men captured in  Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State in recent weeks.

The timing coincides with Christmas the most important Christian festival.

The Nigerian government has not been able to contain the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram operating in the north east of the country which has substantial ties with other jihadi extremist militant groups like ISIS.

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The militants then attacked a military base but were driven off.

Responsibility for the attack in Borno state is being claimed by group that styles itself Islamic State West African Province which is active in north-eastern Nigeria and is commonly known as Boko Haram.

The terrorists were in seven bakkies fitted with mounted heavy machine guns known as technicals.

After their ambush, they attacked a military base near Jakana.

Troops there managed to repel them. 

The militants fled, leaving behind weapons and one of the vehicles.

The Nigerian Government insists it has the measure of the terror group, forcing it abandon plans to establish a caliphate in northern Nigeria. 

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The Nigerian terror group as Hauwa Mohammed Liman, who was killed yesterday, deserved to die because she had abandoned Islam by workin for the Red Cross.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross is  urging the Islamist terror group to spare the life of Alice Loksha, kidnapped from a Red Cross hospital in the town Rann in north-eastern Borno state last March.

Midwife Saifura Hussaini was executed last month and Hauwa Mohammed Liman yesterday.

It’s not known what demands Boko Haram has made for the releasing its hostages.

The ICRC says in its appeal than none of those kidnapped have anything to do with Boko Haram’s fight.

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Several officials of aid groups within the world organisation were seriously wounded.

The UN is reviewing  of the security situation in the northeast Nigeria which is a stronghold for the militants.

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The convoy came under attack traveling from Bama to Maiduguri in Borno State after delivering desperately needed humanitarian assistance.

The UN’s calling it an attack on the people who most need the assistance and aid that these workers were bringing.

UNICEF, which is one the groups assaulted works in 190 countries to promote the rights and wellbeing of every child, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children.

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Graves are being dug daily to bury victims – mostly children – of the malnutrition in the second largest centre in Borno State that’s cut off by Boko Haram militants.

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A Medicines Sans Frontiers  team accessed Bama where 24 000 people, including 15 000 children, are living in a camp located in a hospital compound.

It discovered an acute health crisis.

A fifth of the more than 800 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

Sixteen severely malnourished children at immediate risk of death were taken to the MSF in-patient therapeutic feeding centre in the state capital Maiduguri.

The team counted 1 233 graves near the camp that have been dug in the past year; 480 of them are for children who had starved to death at a rate of between eight and 30 a day.

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Some victims had their throats slit whilst others were tied up and drowned in Lake Chad.

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News of the attack last Thursday took several days to get through because Boko Haram destroyed mobile phone masts in the area.

It was the second major assault in two days by Boko Haram who targeted the traders on their way to Chad to buy fish.

Militants blocked their path and used knives instead of guns to avoid attracting attention from the multi-national troops from Nigeria, Chad and Niger.

A day earlier, Boko Haram gunmen attacked a village in Borno state, killing at least 45 people.

Victims’ hands were tied behind their backs and their throats were slit.

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