In Depth:  Barnabas Fund / World Watch Monitor / Elizabeth Kendal

January saw the world’s attention focused on France, when there was almost universal condemnation of the brutal killing of 17 innocent people.

A number of the world’s leaders flew to Paris to join arms and walk through the streets as an affirmation of unity and liberty. And yet in West Africa a new tragedy on a far greater scale is unfolding, to which little or no attention has been paid.