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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria President Says Military 'Gaining Ground' against Boko Haram |
| 2015-09-09 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said great strides had been made in the fight against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , rounding on critics lamenting a lack of progress against the murderous Moslems. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari"I think if you have been listening hard enough or if you have been to the northeast (of Nigeria), the military is really gaining ground," the 72-year-old former military ruler said on a visit to Ghana. Buhari, who has made defeating the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s his priority since taking office in late May, said the murderous Moslems were "virtually limited" to the remote Sambisa Forest area of Borno state, in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... . Many of the 2.1 million displaced by six years of violence have begun returning home, he added. "If you really bother to find out, a lot of progress is being made," he told news hounds. Buhari has faced accusations of being too slow to act since becoming president, particularly on appointments to key government positions. Most senior ministerial roles remain unfilled. Hopes have been high that an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -backed multi-national force, comprising troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and Benin, will crush the Takfiri group operating in Iraq and Syria, ISIL-allied hard boys. But a planned July-end deployment of the force has been delayed. In the meantime, deadly attacks have continued, although the military has claimed a series of successes in recent weeks. They include the recapture of the strategic town of Gamboru Ngala on the Cameroon border and the arrest of an alleged top commander. |
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