Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has tasked his military with
ending the insurgency by the end of the year, but even if they succeed,
the long-term consequences are devastating, as the jihadists have
destroyed much of the infrastructure in the northeast of the country
with their incessant bombings and raids. “There was already a problem
with getting kids to school on a regular basis that simply became worse
once Boko Haram emerged,” Yan St-Pierre, terrorism analyst at Modern
Security Consulting Group, told The Guardian. “In so-called liberated
areas it’s been difficult to restore functioning infrastructure. That’s
why we’re talking about a generational problem now, the structural
problems, the financial problems, this is going to take years to fix.”
Boko Haram, which translates to “Western education is sinful”, has
been targeting schools and teachers as part of their terror campaign —
most tragically in Chibok on 14 April, 2014, where they seized 276
schoolgirls. The abduction brought the horrors of Boko Haram to global
attention, and spawned the international #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
(Source: NYTIMES)
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