The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is the faction of the Boko Haram jihad group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS. The Nigerian government has repeatedly boasted that it has defeated Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, or was just about to do so. It vowed to defeat Boko Haram by the end of 2014. And by the end of 2015. In mid-2017 it called the movement a spent force. In February 2018, it again claimed that the jihadis were defeated. They weren’t, and aren’t.
“Islamic Terrorists Kill About 30 Soldiers in Northeast Nigeria in Four Days,” Reuters, March 14, 2021:
MAIDUGURI—Islamic terrorists have killed about 30 government soldiers in a series of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Wednesday, military and civilian militia sources said on Sunday….
Four attacks claimed the lives of at least 27 soldiers and 10 members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), including a unit head, the sources told Reuters.
CJTF are local groups of armed men who protect the areas where they live, mainly against Islamist insurgents. They are not members of the military but often fight alongside soldiers….
Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the regional affiliate of the ISIS terrorist group, claimed credit for a Friday attack in Monguno, via its Amaq news agency on Saturday.
ISWAP said it had killed 33 soldiers and captured one. Two military sources and one CJTF fighter said the attack, which took place between Monguno and Kukawa, had killed between 11 and 15 soldiers, with several still missing. Four CJTF fighters were also killed….
A more than decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria waged by the Boko Haram terrorist group and later ISWAP has displaced about 2 million people and killed more than 30,000….
gravenimage says
Seven years after Nigerian government first declared them defeated, Islamic jihadis murder 30 soldiers
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Yes–how many times have the Nigerian authorities claimed that the threat of Boko Haram is over? Just ludicrous at this point.
Michael Copeland says
The President is a Fulani muslim.
gravenimage says
This is true, Michael. Unlike his hapless predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, you have to wonder if Buhari even wants these Jihad terror attacks to stop.