David Blair's Blog, page 27

Boko Haram kills five during first attack in Chad

A girl without an arm: the tragedy of Boko Haram's child victims

Hadjara Mahamadou, 8, was shot in the right arm as she fled Boko Haram gunmen. After an agonising journey to Chad, the girl's limb was amputated.

Perilous journey through the reed-beds of Lake Chad to escape Boko Haram

Like Biblical fugitives, people fleeing Boko Haram dodge among the bulrushes to reach safety in Chad. One woman went into labour on a boat halfway through the journey, giving birth within an hour of arrival

The ambition masked behind Putin's smile

Talks between Ukraine and Russia's leaders are skewed in favour of the latter's territorial goals, says David Blair

'One-sided Minsk deal on Ukraine asks nothing of Putin'

Analysis: Emerging agreement appears to meet few of Ukraine's demands and at best will merely freeze conflict when the advantage lies with Russia-backed separatists

Escape from Boko Haram: what the survivors witnessed

On the shores of Lake Chad, families who have fled the clutches of Nigeria's Islamist fanatics tell David Blair of the methods and madness of group's massacres

Finland to teach typing rather than handwriting in schools

From 2016, Finnish schoolchildren will learn how to touch-type and text message rather than handwriting

Is there really something uniquely wicked about genocide?

International Court of Justice clears Croatia and Serbia of genocide

Massacre in Vukovar and Operation Storm during the Balkans wars were not attempts at genocide, says the International Court of Justice in the Hague

The Bermuda conference that failed to save the Jews

As the Warsaw Ghetto was being razed, the Allies held an almost forgotten conference in Bermuda to discuss saving the Jews. Their failure to take any important steps contributed to the suicide of Szmul Zygielbojm, the whistleblower of the Holocaust who sent his first report to The Daily Telegraph