U.S. set to provide $5 million for anti-Boko Haram force

The United States plans to provide $5 million (£3.2 million) to help support a regional military force fighting Nigeria’s Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a state department official said on Tuesday. Boko Haram last year held a vast swathe of territory in northeastern Nigeria of just over 30,000 square kilometres (11,500 square miles), about the…