As Nigerian election nears, Boko Haram looms large

(The Christian Science Monitor) The purported leader of Boko Haram claimed responsibility in a video Wednesday (January 21) for a massacre in the Nigerian town of Baga, the deadliest attack by the Islamist group since they started terrorizing northern Nigeria six years ago.

Abubakar Shekau threatened more violence in the unverified YouTube video. 

"This is just the beginning of the killings," Shekau said in the local Hausa language. "What you've just witnessed is a tip of the iceberg. More deaths are coming."