THE HUNT FOR BOKO HARAM
"If you're looking for logic and clarity and well-thought-out strategy in a group like Boko Haram, you're going to come up wanting," journalist Alex Perry, author of the Newsweek cover story on the group and of the e-book The Hunt for Boko Haram: Investigating the Terror Tearing Nigeria Apart, told NPR. "This is not smart jihadi thinking. These guys are really badly educated. They're dumb, essentially."
There have been an estimated 92 Boko Haram attacks during the first half of 2014, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The group aims to enforce and Islamic state, despite Nigeria being home to a Christian majority in its population of 170 million.
A report released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in June showed the extent of Boko Haram's violence and the movement of Nigerians:
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Nigeria has Africa's largest internally displaced population, and the group's bloody insurgency has forced about 250,000 Nigerians to flee their homes toward the west in the past 10 months.
There have been an estimated 92 Boko Haram attacks during the first half of 2014, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The group aims to enforce and Islamic state, despite Nigeria being home to a Christian majority in its population of 170 million.
A report released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in June showed the extent of Boko Haram's violence and the movement of Nigerians:
View photo
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IDMC
Nigeria has Africa's largest internally displaced population, and the group's bloody insurgency has forced about 250,000 Nigerians to flee their homes toward the west in the past 10 months.
