This year’s Ramadan has been particularly deadly in Nigeria, with suicide bombers hitting mosques and worshippers gunned down as they prayed.
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But he later said: “More investigations as to the circumstances of the incident have revealed that all the other five people, including a woman, were in the vehicle that exploded”.
A marketplace was also bombed on Thursday in the city of Gombe, killing 43 shoppers who were preparing for the start of Eid festivities.
Buhari, therefore, thanked Obama for inviting him to visit his country as well as his administration’s support to Nigeria. “This is our main objective”, Buhari said, a day after meeting with President Barack Obama. “So I think that Boko Haram have to be severely kept away from Islam”.
But Nigerians are tired of the military’s promises to halt the six-year-old insurgency that has killed more than 13,000 people.
This week’s visit to Washington by President Muhammadu Buhari is viewed by the united states administration as a chance to set the seal on improving ties since he won a March election hailed as Nigeria’s first democratic power transition in decades. The Buhari visit to Washington may address those concerns.
Still, there have been dozens of bombings and hundreds killed since his successor took office in late May.
Boko Haram has carried out multiple attacks in northern Nigeria, most notably the April 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian school girls who are still missing.
The United States Itself helped to some extent in this process. We should not be confused by this change, hateful as it is: “It does not mean that Boko Haram is succeeding in its aims – it shows that it is losing”, Buhari said. Since claiming allegiance to IS, the militant group’s tactics are mimicking their Middle Eastern counterparts in a new phase of warfare in Nigeria.
Still, he is unlikely to endorse a dramatic ramping up of U.S. military activity against Boko Haram – fearing it could be used by the group as a recruiting tool and entangle the United States in yet another conflict.
United States Vice President, Mr. Joe Biden and visiting Nigerian President, Mohammadu Buhari on Monday in Washington DC weighed options that would lead to the end of terrorism in Nigeria. Joseph, a fellow at The Brookings Institution who specializes in African politics with an emphasis on Nigeria, has also taught at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.
Boko Haram jihadists killed 16 civilians in an attack this week on a southeast Niger village, near the Nigerian border, a local official said.
“As a policy, we will continue to press the government of Nigeria, as well as other governments which have provided legislation that discriminate against the LGBT community”, Thomas-Greenfield notified reporters during a conference call, according to the Nigerian Pilot. We are going to deny them free movement across borders.
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The Buhari administration last month slated $100 million for the Multinational Joint Task Force – military personnel from Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon specifically focused on fighting Boko Haram.
