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Missiles over Jabo

By Dionne Searcey and Eric Schmitt
People on a street in Sokoto, Nigeria. Sokoto, the one-time caliphate, carries regional significance for Muslims. — Taibat Ajiboye/The New York Times

THE three herders stood at the edge of a crescent-shaped crater in a cornfield in Jabo, northwest Nigeria, peering down at the scorched earth.

Curiosity had drawn them 270km from Zamfara state to see the aftermath of a Christmas-night missile strike.

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