Nigeria watching 2018 onwards

[AdamG]

International Joint Operation to remove uranium from a Nigerian reactor, October 2018
https://www.defensenews.com/news/pen...rorist-groups/

[davidbfpo]

Four different articles, one by a former senior UK General - which is surprisingly optimistic unlike the next two. One of which is by an OSINT analyst from Nigeria (which is from late 2018, although more recent posts exist on his website). Then a World Politics Review and an academic article

From General Mike Jackson:https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/0...=Evening_Blend

The OSINT author on the current situation in Novemeber 2018:https://peccaviconsulting.wordpress..../#comment-1627 and on attacks on FOBs in 2018:https://peccaviconsulting.wordpress..../#comment-1630

The WPR commentary, from October 2018:https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/...nst-boko-haram

The academic article refers to:

This paper provides a detailed summary and analysis of “Slicing Off the Tumour,” a text written by two sons of Muhammad Yusuf (d. 2009), founder of the Nigerian Jihadi movement known as “Boko Haram,” and recently (2018) pub-lished by the Islamic State.

Link:https://www.politicsandreligionjourn...e/view/320/332

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to WoTR for this first-hand commentary by a Nigerian, who works for the London-based Tony Blair Institute. It opens with:

In October, I was the first researcher to visit Operation Safe Corridor, a military facility on the outskirts of Gombe, Nigeria, that houses a bold experiment in jihadist deradicalization. At the site, 157 former Boko Haram fighters who laid down their arms and turned themselves in under the government’s amnesty offer are going through a program to reintegrate them back into society.
This program may be the best path to peace, but its potentially fraught nature is clear. Deradicalization of former Boko Haram militants will not succeed if the broader contours of the conflict are not dealt with. Specifically, a wider justice and reconciliation package — one that convinces, prepares, and equips communities to receive former fighters — and sustained pressure from the military are needed.

Link:https://warontherocks.com/2019/03/ma...aram-fighters/