Boko Haram's Motives, Only a Partial Story

The news of 29 people murdered in Nigeria over the weekend is simply tragic.  The likely culprit is a group called Boko Haram which Bloomberg tells us means:

“western education is a sin” in the Hausa language

Four paragraphs down in the very same article the authors state:

suspected Boko Haram militants killed a soldier and kidnapped 10 workers from China in a May 16 attack on a camp run by a Chinese engineering company in Cameroon. 

If Boko Haram's enemy is western education why are they targeting people from China?

Are we perhaps not hearing the full spectrum of the groups motives?      

 

Does the U.S. Plan to Bomb Yemen for 16 Years?

Apparently a six year long bombing campaign in Yemen is just not enough for the U.S.  

The tiny African country of Djibouti is now a legal landlord to the U.S. military for the next ten years.  Separated from Yemen by only 20 miles via the Red Sea the small Muslim country will collect $630,000,000 in rent from the U.S. Treasury over the next decade.

Of course the 800,000 residents of Djibouti and the 317,000,000 residents of the U.S. have no input in this decision.  The contractual parties include only the small number of people calling themselves "the state" in both America and Africa.