- While the Nigerian military may still be able to make headway in ejecting Boko Haram from the last of its strongholds, the state will continue to struggle to control the country’s vast northeast territory.
- Boko Haram has shown that it is not dependent on holding territoryand that it can shift fluidly between conventional, i.e. army-like tactics, and unconventional guerilla and terrorism-style tactics. That requires a nimble response from the Nigerian government in Abuja, which had relied on conventional military operations to drive Boko Haram out
HOW BOKO HARAM GOES GLOBAL & MO' MONEY MO' PROBLEMS AS SAUDI ISLAMIC BANK GOES NATIONAL FOR AFRICA1/22/2018 Terrorist group Boko Haram has lost most of the territory it claimed as a “caliphate” within Nigeria back in 2014. But group is still proving deadly to Nigerian troops and civilians from its remaining safe havens, and it seems to be positioning itself to take terrorism global, with links to Al Qaida and ISIS. The largest development organisation in the Muslim world, the Islamic Development Bank, is set to ramp up its fundraising activities and form a partnership with the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to address a yawning infrastructure gap in African and other developing countries. - Financial Times
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