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2021-01-27 Africa Subsaharan
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Nigeria names new military chiefs amid spreading militant violence
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[AlAhram] Hopes were high after initial successes pushing back Islamist 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...
murderous Moslems in 2015 and 2016, but with the rise of Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
's West African branch the military ceded many of its gains.
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Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is possibly ISIS’ most active affiliate since they cast off Abubakar Shekau and his rump Boko Haram. Based in Muslim north Nigeria, they regularly ambush the local military, and raid both Muslim and Christian communities in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon for supplies, slaves, captives for ransom, and the sheer vicious pleasure of it. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new military high command, a front man said on Tuesday, after years of mounting criticism over spreading violence by Islamist murderous Moslems and armed gangs.
"President Buhari thanks the outgoing Service Chiefs for what he calls their 'overwhelming achievements in our efforts at bringing enduring peace to our dear country'," the presidency front man said. He told Rooters later that some of the chiefs had resigned while others retired.
Leo Irabor was named to the powerful Chief of Defence Staff post, which oversees the main military branches, the presidency front man said, while I. Attahiru, A.Z. Gambo and I.O. Amao would command the army, navy and air force respectively.
Now, swathes of the northeast of Africa's most populous country and biggest oil producer are out of government control, with soldiers hunkered down in defensive positions and regularly killed by murderous Moslems while on patrol.
Armed gangs have surged through Nigeria's northwest since Buhari was first elected in 2015, kidnappers patrol many of the country's roads and conflict between farmers and herdsmen has frequently spiked. In the Gulf of Guinea where Nigeria's offshore oil wealth is concentrated, piracy is on the rise.
As disorder has worsened, the military has also attacked civilians, drawing condemnation from many countries that have since often refused to sell weapons and equipment to Nigeria - supplies the government says are needed to neutralise murderous Moslems undermining public security.
Last October, police and soldiers killed at least 12 people in Lagos taking part in protests against police brutality, according to witnesses and rights group Amnesia Amnesty International. 
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