#bokoharam — Public Fediverse posts
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The Guardian view on Nigeria’s kidnappings: a country can’t prosper when going to school is a danger | Editorial
By EditorialAbductions are resurging and may be spreading to new areas – with young children among the victims. A military response alone won’t work
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Girl, by Edna O’Brien
Irish novelist Edna O’Brien passed away two years ago. When I read of her death I didn’t know anything about her writing except that her first novel, Country Girls, had been banned in Ireland. That made me decide to read some of her work. As it happens the first book by her that I came across was the last she wrote, in 2019, which I bought over a year ago and has been sitting on my coffee table ever since. I started reading it this evening and found it so compelling that I couldn’t put it down until I had finished it.
Girl is set in Nigeria and is told in the voice of Maryam, a young girl who is kidnapped, along with her schoolmates, by the jihadists of Boko Haram. Maryam and the other schoolgirls are subjected to appaling horror and degradation described in unflinching detail. Eventually Maryam is given as a prize to a Boko Haram soldier Mahmoud, and bears his baby (simply called Babby). Maryam escapes with Babby with another girl, and drifts into and out of danger. Upon eventually returning home she is punished by her family, but the book ends on an optimistic note as she finds sanctuary.
The story is grim but O’Brien clearly had a great gift for storytelling, with subtle shifts in style as Maryam’s mental state shifts between horror, to relief, to sad reminiscence of happier times. In her acknowledgements at the end, the author explains that Maryam’s tale is actually a synthesis of accounts of various ordeals experienced by real-life women, to whom she spoke to in two visits to Nigeria, where she also learned something of the linguistic mannerisms of Maryam’s people. It is quite an achievement for an Irish woman in her late eighties to find a convincing voice for a young Nigerian girl subjected to pains surely beyond imagination. I think it’s a brilliantly moving book.
Girl has been criticised for O’Brien’s appropriation of the voice of a different culture, which (it has been claimed) makes it feel like an artificial exercise. A book of this kind by a Nigerian author would no doubt be more “authentic” in many important respects, but what I took from it (apart from the beautiful prose) is the emotional authenticity of the emotional tone and her desire to celebrate the strength of the many women whose struggles come together in the story of Maryam. The violent oppression of women is widespread in this world, so Maryam is a universal figure – a survivor.
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Nigerian security forces free more than 300 hostages abducted by militants
By Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan with news agenciesPresident hails ‘successful’ rescue as country battles endemic kidnapping for ransom and insecurity worsens
#Nigeria #BokoHaram #IslamicState #Africa #Worldnews #TheGuardian #EromoEgbejuleinAbidjanwithnewsagencies
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The Eternal Quartermaster By Lawson Akhigbe
Nigeria's army has been described as mighty on paper many of its soldiers 'ghosts' who exist only on the payroll, much of its equipment stolen and sold to insurgents."The Economist, October 2021https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/01/the-eternal-quartermaster-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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IS Responds to Military Pressure in Nigeria
Despite Nigeria's assessment, the emerging consensus was that Lakurawa was not a unified entity but rather an umbrella term, and that attacks attributed to the group were likely perpetrated by a mix of Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP). JNIM, bandits. and potentially a separate new group operating under the label without claiming responsibility.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/07/25/is-responds-to-military-pressure-in-nigeria/
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Welcome to Nigeria: Where Premium Security is a Myth and Survival is a Sport by Lawson Akhigbe
Whether you are in your living room, a classroom, a place of worship, or just trying to navigate a highway without praying for divine intervention, lives are being lost to blood-thirsty bandits. Thomas Hobbes once described life in the state of nature as "short and brutish." If he were alive today, he’d probably look at Nigeria and say, "See? I told you so." -
Tinubu, the Sahel and Nigeria’s Most Dangerous Foreign Policy Failure
There was a time when Nigeria did not wait for foreign capitals to define West African security. From the anti-apartheid struggle in Southern Africa to military interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Nigeria projected power, influence and diplomatic leadership. Whether one agreed with its methods or not, nobody doubted who was leading. -
Sahel Regional Security Dynamics: A Multifaceted Analysis (as of late 2025–early 2026)
The modern Sahel crisis traces back to the 2011 Libyan collapse, which flooded the region with weapons and fighters, reigniting Tuareg rebellions in northern Mali in 2012. This enabled Islamist groups to seize territory, leading to French intervention (Operation Serval in 2013, later Barkhane). Initial gains were undermined by persistent weak governance: corruption, urban-rural divides, ethnic tensions (e.g., Fulani pastoralists vs. agricultural communities), and state absence in rural peripheries. -
Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them/
> Today we have a report by Antonia Juelich at the Cambridge Programme on AI Science and Policy, CASP: “‘God has helped us, and so will AI’: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI”. Oh no! The bad guys have AI!
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Nigeria says army has killed 300 bandits in north-western state of Zamfara
By William ChristouVigilantes also took part in the fight that raged all night and the following morning, residents say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/11/nigeria-army-kills-bandits-north-western-state-zamfara
#Nigeria #Africa #Worldnews #IslamicState #BokoHaram #TheGuardian #WilliamChristou
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Nigeria says army has killed 300 bandits in north-western state of Zamfara
By William ChristouVigilantes also took part in the fight that raged all night and the following morning, residents say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/11/nigeria-army-kills-bandits-north-western-state-zamfara
#Nigeria #Africa #Worldnews #IslamicState #BokoHaram #WilliamChristou
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🎭 It's heartwarming to see elite academics at #Cambridge finally catching up to the fact that terrorists also have internet access. 🤦♂️ Who knew Boko Haram wasn't just sitting in the jungle, waiting for the next postcard on AI trends? 📬
https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism #eliteacademics #internetaccess #terrorism #awareness #BokoHaram #AItrends #HackerNews #ngated