U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan rank ``among the largest food crises in the world.''

The overall trend has experts looking in various places for answers, particularly when one might expect the health-care systems of poorer nations to be less able to treat seriously ill patients.

Saint John celebrated Canada Day in a different way this year, with no formal ceremonies or activities and no fireworks.

The extremists from the Islamist State West Africa Province on Saturday attacked Monguno, where there are an estimated 150,000 displaced civilians, a United Nations office and a Nigerian military base.

A new immigrant to Regina is volunteering with the local YWCA to ensure vulnerable clients continue to be served and immunocompromised staff are protected.

The health minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement that the case was an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos Feb. 25.

Oluwatosin Oluwafemi is charged with second-degree murder in the December 2014 death of his four-year-old daughter.

Midjiyawa Bakari, the governor of the region said officials are investigating the origins of the explosive device, but it is certainly either from the military fighting Boko Haram extremists in the region or from the Islamic extremist group itself.

Nigeria's government last year banned the country's largest Shi'ite Muslim group, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), after violent clashes between its members and police.

A United Nations spokesperson said the executions and abductions happened Monday in northern Borno state.