Boko Haram launches new spate of attacks

In this edition: Boko Haram’s latest offensive, the French army in Mali, and South Africa’s space project. After months on the defensive, Boko Haram fights back. The Islamist extremists attacked mourners at a funeral near Gulak, in the northeast of Nigeria. And on Thursday, militants attacked the village of Nguagam in Niger, close to the frontier with Nigeria, during a visit by