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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Boko Haram Suspected after Suicide Attacks in Chad, NE Nigeria |
| 2015-07-12 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] At least 14 people were killed in a suicide kaboom at a crowded market in Chad's capital on Saturday just days after 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... claimed a previous bombing in the city that left 38 people dead. The attack in N'Djamena by a man disguised as a woman in a full-face veil came after a botched bombing of a bus station in the restive capital of Nigeria's Borno state, Maiduguri, which killed two pedestrians. Experts said the bombing in Chad, following previous strikes in Niger and repeated targeting of northern 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... , demonstrated the need for an effective solution to the problem involving both Nigeria and its neighbors. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power on May 29, has made defeating Boko Haram a top priority but experts said he could not do it alone. "The fight against Boko Haram is unlikely to be concluded with any rapidity," Ryan Cummings, chief Africa analyst with the Red24 consulting group, told AFP. "The fact remains that while Boko Haram continues to be defined as a Nigerian problem, evidence suggests that it has become a quandary of regional proportions requiring a regional solution. "In the absence of Nigeria's neighbors recognizing the extent of Boko Haram's regional contagion and subsequently responding to it decisively, the most exhaustive efforts by the Nigerian government alone won't solve the problem." |
| Posted by:Fred |