Terror insurgency or Christian genocide? Inside Nigeria’s security crisis
Nigeria is facing a security crisis. Extremist violence, mass kidnappings and deepening food insecurity has created what the UN has called the country’s worst emergency in a decade.
Recent weeks have seen a spate of high profile abductions, including 300 schoolgirls and teachers from Niger state.
Security officials now fear these pupils could be used as human shields to deter a military intervention being threatened by the United States.
At the same time, aid is being slashed, and extremist groups and criminal gangs have disrupted food supplies, leaving 35 million people projected to face…
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