Emmanuel de Merode, an internationally recognized Belgian conservationist who has been working to protect rare mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was attacked Tuesday by unknown assailants.
At least 20 people were killed and 60 were wounded in the attack on the base in Bor in Jonglei State, a United Nations official said.
The girls were kidnapped early Tuesday from a state school in the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency, startling a country already numbed by a steady drumbeat of horrific episodes attributed to the Islamist militant group.
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