“I’m very hopeful that it will not take us more than a month to recover the old territories.” That’s Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan predicting that all the territory taken by Boko Haram will be recovered soon. (He faces an election next week.)

+ NYT: Nigerian Army noticeably absent in town taken from Boko Haram.

+ The Islamic State has taken credit for suicide bomb attacks that killed at least 135 people in Yemen.