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Addressing the Boko Haram challenge in Nigeria
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By Kate Meagher
ADDRESSING the Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria requires policymakers to look beyond Western security templates of Islamic terrorism to grasp the underlying causes of what is primarily a Nigerian conflict. This policy brief examines the four explanatory factors behind the insurgency: economic marginalisation, governance failures, extremist operations and security failures.
Economic causes are traced to poverty, unemployment and extreme inequality between northern and southern Nigeria, while governance failures relate to national religious polarisation, political brinksmanship among religious elite, and rampant corruption in the face of mass poverty. The focus on extremist operations considers the shifting objectives and recruitment strategies of Boko Haram, which tend to confound clear policy analysis, while an assessment of security failures notes their role in driving rather than reining
Lawan welcomes release of Kankara schoolboys
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How we rescued Kankara school boys – Military
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Released Kankara scholboys.
Dozens of schoolboys rescued from kidnappers in north-west Nigeria arrived home on Friday, many barefoot and clutching blankets.
Television pictures showed the boys in dusty clothes and light green uniforms, looking weary but well, getting off buses in Katsina and walking to a government building.
One, with flecks of dried mud on his face, told Channels TV the captors fed them bread and cassava.
“It was cold,” he told the reporter. Asked how he had felt when the bus arrived in Katsina, he said: “I was really happy,” and broke into a smile.
Burundi ex-president Buyoya dies of COVID-19
Published 18 December 2020
Ex-President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71, several close relatives told AFP on Friday.
“President Pierre Buyoya died last night in Paris. He had Covid-19,” a member of his family told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Several other relatives confirmed the death of Buyoya, who served as special envoy of the African Union to Mali and the Sahel from 2012 until November this year.
Buyoya “had been hospitalised Wednesday last week in Bamako where he was placed on a respirator,” the family member said.
“He was evacuated to Paris yesterday afternoon. His plane made a stopover and arrived in France in the evening. He died as the ambulance took him to hospital in Paris for treatment,” the source said.