Niger, with its exploding population and its vast unfertile territory, has one of the lowest rates of contraceptive use in the world, a researcher reports.
More than 700 million women alive today were married as children, and more than one in three were wed before they reached 15, Unicef said in a study.
A wildlife reserve is weighing a plan to move some rhinos out, aiming to protect them from poachers by spreading the risk to other game reserves.
The takeover of Damboa was the latest defeat for a Nigerian military that has proved unable to stem repeated attacks on civilians by the group this year.
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