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Northeast Nigeria’s Growing Insecurity Threatens Humanitarian Aid Workers and Civilians

Bottom Line Up FrontIn the last 12 months alone, a total of 24 aid workers have been killed by non-state armed groups operating in the region.Attacks [...] More

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Diminished at Home, Durable Boko Haram May Go Global

Diminished at Home, Durable Boko Haram May Go Global

Bottom Line: Terrorist group Boko Haram has lost most of the territory it claimed as a “caliphate” within Nigeria back in 2015. But the group still [...] More

Tackling Insurgency in Nigeria Defies Single Formula

Although deaths from the terrorist group Boko Haram are down since they peaked in 2012, the group continues to wreak havoc across the northern part [...] More

Underpaid Nigerian Army Struggles to Contain Boko Haram

Boko Haram terror attacks have swelled in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State over the past few months. Hilary Matfess, who is author of the [...] More

Boko Haram Stalks Region Despite Territory Loss

Boko Haram Stalks Region Despite Territory Loss

Suicide attacks and deaths attributed to the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram have been increasing over the first half of 2017. Nigerian President [...] More

Boko Haram Frees 21 Chibok Schoolgirls

Boko Haram Frees 21 Chibok Schoolgirls

Boko Haram militants have released 21 missing schoolgirls, who were kidnapped from Chibok more than two years ago, to Nigerian authorities as part of [...] More

Nigeria: Militancy is Devastating for Oil Production

Nigeria remains one of Africa’s largest oil producers, but for the past six months, it has been surpassed by the continent’s other major producer, [...] More

Growing Instability in Africa’s Top Two Oil Producers

Growing Instability in Africa’s Top Two Oil Producers

Africa’s long-time, largest oil producer is wavering. For six months in a row (March-August), Nigeria landed in the number two spot of the [...] More

Beware of Boko Haram's Resilience

While claims last week by a Nigerian army spokesman that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was “fatally wounded” in an August 19 airstrike should be [...] More

Divergent Growth in Africa

Downward growth revisions for Sub-Saharan Africa over the past year have tended to highlight the continued impact of external stimuli on the [...] More

Civil War Within Nigerian Islam

There is a leadership struggle underway within Boko Haram, the violent, extremist movement that has claimed more than 20,000 lives since 2011 and [...] More

Boko Haram: The Plague Affecting Nigeria and Beyond

Boko Haram: The Plague Affecting Nigeria and Beyond

Despite sustained efforts by the Nigerian military to root out Boko Haram from its stronghold in northeastern Nigeria, the terrorist organization [...] More

The Islamic State's West Africa Province

A key moment on the Boko Haram timeline occurred in March 2015, when the group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS). According to Dr. [...] More