Nikki Haley has also criticized the nomination of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the top UN human rights body when, she says Congo is itself a human right violator.

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US Ambassador Nikki Haley tells the UN Security Council the looming famines in northeast Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan are primarily caused by armed conflict and represent a tragic example of the failure of those governments to address the causes, of the combatants to allow access to alleviate suffering.

She reiterates that there is a critical relationship between human rights violations and conflict, so when African nations nominate a country like the DRC for a seat on the Human Rights Council it adds to the conflict.

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They’re rescuing hundreds of women and girls abducted and held for months, even years, by the terrorists.

It is little more than a year ago that Nigerian soldiers fled – outgunned and outnumbered by Boko Haram.

This left the road open for the Islamist militants to abduct more than 300 schoolgirls from their homes in the town of Chibok.

Now supported by forces from neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon, the Nigerian soldiers are better armed and getting their hazard pay which boosts their morale.

They’re cutting off Boko Haram’s supply lines and retaking towns as security forces prepare what they say will be a knockout blow to the militants who’ve held sway in northeast Nigeria for years.

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