Underpaid Nigerian Army Struggles to Contain Boko Haram

By Hilary Matfess

Hilary Matfess is author of the forthcoming book, Women and the War on Boko Haram, which will be available in November 2017, and a PhD student in the Political Science Department at Yale University, where she studies gender and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.

Boko Haram terror attacks have swelled in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State over the past few months. Hilary Matfess, who is author of the forthcoming book, Women and the War on Boko Haram, which will be available in November 2017, tells The Cipher Brief’s Kaitlin Lavinder what it was like on the ground and why we’re seeing this worrying trend.

The Cipher Brief: You just returned from Nigeria – what’s your sense of what the situation on the ground in Nigeria is like right now with regards to Boko Haram related terror attacks?

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