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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Military wives block husbands' deployment against Boko Haram |
| 2014-08-13 |
| [DAWN] Military wives in the restive Nigerian city of Maiduguri have taken to the streets this week, burning tyres to prevent their husbands' deployment to fight 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... About 300 women and 500 children have for two days gathered at the gates of a military base in the Borno state capital, claiming that their spouses were ill-equipped to take on the Islamist murderous Moslems. Boko Haram has been waging a brutal insurgency since 2009 which has left thousands of people dead, despite a state of emergency imposed in three northeast states since May 2013 and a troop surge. The soldiers stationed in Maiduguri were due to retake the town of Gwoza, which Boko Haram overran last week, killing dozens and sending hundreds more fleeing. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I understand they're putting the hashtag in all caps now. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-08-13 14:19 |
| #2 Easier to get foreign aid and asylum after they've been overrun, I guess. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-08-13 05:10 |
| #1 How's the search going for the kidnapped girls? I thought we sent some 300 troops to help find them? |
| Posted by: dk70 the scantily clad 2014-08-13 00:52 |