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Archives: Boko Haram
Do Drug Profits actually drive Terrorism in the Muslim World?
Robert Rotberg | (The Conversation) | - - Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology. . . . ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor,…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram is about Vengeance, not Islam
By Gregory Alonso Pirio | (Informed Comment) | - - So many people are scratching their heads as they search for an explanation for the extreme acts of violence meted out by…
Can Nigeria’s new Muslim President defeat Boko Haram Extremists?
By Lisa Vives | -- NEW YORK (IPS) - Muhammadu Buhari, his hand on the Holy Book, was sworn in as Nigeria’s president at an open-air ceremony this past Friday in the…
Boko Haram Menaces Cameroon Schoolchildren after Massacre in Nigeria
By Ngala Killian Chimtom MAROUA, Far North Region, Jan 14 2015 (IPS) - “I’d quit my job before going to work in a place like that.” That is how a primary school…
Do Nigerians Matter to World Press? – 2,000 feared dead in Boko Haram Attacks
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in Nigeria from what has been described as Boko Haram's deadliest attack amid ongoing bloodshed a UN…
Oil and Terrorist Groups: Iraq’s ISIS, others Seeking Black Gold
By Michael T. Klare via Tomdispatch Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine, the East and South China Seas: wherever you look, the world is aflame with new or intensifying conflicts. At first…