by Vanda Felbab
The kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls from Dapchi concluding calendar month is the latest resultant to shape dubiousness on the Nigerian government’s claims that Boko Haram has been technically defeated. Unfortunately, the assail should convey come upwards every bit no surprise. Since 2015, the jihadist grouping has lost pregnant territorial command too no longer holds major cities. But every bit I saw during my fieldwork inwards Nigeria inwards January, the jihadist threat is far from gone, too counterinsurgency policies larn out on to live on troubled too troubling.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged a savage insurgency inwards northeastern Nigeria too neighboring countries. Both its tearing jihad too the Nigerian government’s too militias’ counterinsurgency too counterterrorism efforts convey led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, the prolonged detention too disappearance of tens of thousands more, too the displacement of over 2 million. There has likewise been massive economical destruction inwards an already exceedingly pathetic too underdeveloped region. Even inwards comparing amongst other Islamist jihadist groups, such every bit the Taliban inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan or al Shabab inwards Somalia, Boko Haram stands out inwards its predatory guide too failure to deliver the virtually rudimentary world services to the communities it controls…
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