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Changing tactics on terrorism
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New Study Shows Islamist Violence Remains Top Terror Threat
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The latest index is another wake-up call
That terrorism has constituted the biggest singular threat to our national security and stability is no longer news, given the atrocities committed by Boko Haram in the past 11 years. But it is nonetheless worrisome that Nigeria is ranked the third most terrorised country after Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2020 Global Terrorism Index. It is distressing that the insurgency in the North-east, banditry in the north-west and a general climate of lawlessness across the country have continued to shape how Nigeria is perceived by the rest of the world.
What the Global Terrorism Index therefore portends is that the country is steadily gravitating towards becoming a Hobbesian state. And to steer it from the perilous course, the federal government must come to action and address all the indicators used to measure and define the country as one of the most dangerous places on earth. Travel advisories issued by several Western countries, particularly the
The continent is currently witnessing a spree of terror attacks inspired by ISIS-affiliated groups.
On November 6, a CIA officer, formerly of the Navy s elite SEAL Team 6, was killed in an explosion set off by the Somali-based Islamic terror group al-Shabaab.
The CIA operative, along with four Somali officers, reportedly died during a raid on the group s suspected hideout south of Mogadishu.
Four days later, on November 10, ISIS-linked fighters behead 50 people in a soccer stadium in northeast Mozambique.
Then on November 29th, Boko Haram Islamic fighters slaughter 110 Nigerian farmers, men and women, attacked in their rice fields.
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The lost future generation of Africa
For over more than a decade, people of north-east Nigeria have become conversant with the horrors of Boko Haram
The writer is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. She is a LUMS and Warwick alumnus
When people usually look at an old picture, they marvel at how time has changed circumstances in a good way or bad. For the people of Nigeria, it has been the latter. A never-ending déjà vu of bad memories that keep compounding like a never-ending abyss.
On November 29, a number which started as 43 decimated farmers rose up to a total of 110 butchered Nigerians some with their throats slit open, others with their heads chopped off. Boko Haram, an offshoot of Daesh, was quick to claim credit for what the UN has described as the most violent attack against civilians in 2020.
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