According to a CNN report, a 10-year-old girl wearing a suicide vest entered a crowded marketplace in Nigeria and killed at least 20 people and imjured many others when the vest was detonated.

It happened in the city of Maiduguri around 12:40 p.m. Saturday. The explosives were detonated as the girl was undergoing the required screening procedure before entering the market. It is believed that an accomplice watching from a distance set off the bomb by remote.

Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is quite active in the area and is accused of being behind this attack, as well as one on the following day, when two more young girls wore vests and targeted a mobile phone market in Potiskum. In this case, the vests detonated before their targets were reached, killing only three but injuring 43.

The Atlantic expressed frustration that these stories weren't front page news and were instead, reported "in Paris's shadow."

"How did the attacks in France so thoroughly bury the atrocities in Nigeria?" asked the writer.

The report offered its own reason why this might have happened:

The main difference between France and Nigeria isn't that the public and the media care about one and not the other. It is, rather, that one country has an effective government and the other does not.

The French may not be too fond of President Francois Hollande—his approval ratings last November had plunged to 12 percent—but he responded to his country's twin terror attacks with decisiveness. Not so [with] Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan. Since assuming the presidency in 2010, Jonathan has done little to contain Boko Haram.

Jonathan's failure to confront Boko Haram, of course, is nothing new. Nigeria has long been cursed with a corrupt, ineffective government, one perennially unable to translate the country's vast oil wealth into broad-based prosperity.