Boko Haram

300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school by a that is group self identified by boko haram (Jacqueline). Boko haram is a islamic terrorist group that is against western ideas ,and everything to do with the west. Many people have suffered from boko haram, while no one knows how many they've killed in their insurgency, the number is higher than 17,000 (Ogunlesi). I’m recommending to deal with boko haram by supporting the nigerian army with supplies and anything they need, without putting…

Boko Haram On January 20th, Boko Haram walked into a Nigerian Village, raiding, and eventually burning it to the ground. The attack was recorded to have taken 65 lives, but the people of Dalori Nigeria, reported as many as 100 casualties, and abducted many more. Boko Haram is a radical Islamic group. Boko Haram is a terrorist origination operating primarily in Nigeria. Founded in 2002 by Muhammad Yusuf, the organizations reasoning for the attacks are the historical imbalance between the north…

The girls stated their name and explained that they were kidnapped from their school Chibok government secondary school. At the end one girl states that the video was recorded on December 25, 2015. An Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram kidnapped the girls. Boko Haram is a group of people who have been who follow a different leader under the Islamic religion. Currently they have been targeting other Islamic followers who follow different leaders than there’s. The group is currently based…

Boko-Haram designated as a Terrorist Organization Boko-Harams affiliation with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a regional terrorist network operating in North Africa, evoked concerns from international policy makers (Taylor, L.). The two terrorist groups were thought to be sharing funds, training, explosive materials, and aspirations to expand their focus outside Africa to encompass Europe and the United States (Taylor, L.). Boko-Haram targeted the United Nations building in Abuja with…

balance between the two, the terrorist organization Boko-Haram will continue its onslaught of violence upon this weakening nation. Boko-Haram, an Islamic terrorist group in Nigeria has wreaked havoc on cities in the northern region of Nigeria. This terrorist organization associates the improper religious teaching and practices, that 's being spearheaded by a corrupt government, for the numerous crimes that continues to motivate their movement. Boko-Haram believed that “Sharia”, the Islamic law,…

Boko Haram, a group from Nigeria, invades towns throughout the night, killing thousands of people by shooting or beheading them all. Adam Nossiter, a journalist for the New York Times, points out, “They came in the dead of the night… riding on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.” (1) Boko Haram captured many young girls and women and imprisoning them until they were old enough to marry, which by then they would be forced into marriage by the group. They had forced 450…

country. Boko Haram first begins in 2002 in Maidu-Guri, the capital of Borno State in the country of Nigeria located in a west part of Africa. The Islamic terror group over the past years has being operating around the Nigeria and Niger boarder; also between Nigerian and Cameroon boarder. Nigerian has a population of about 170 million people and it is a multi-ethnic country with different religious groups. The country had witnessed various forms of violent for many decades; however, Boko Haram…

One of the groups that have drawn the most attention in the last year has been Boko Haram (Lecture notes). Boko Haram was designated a terrorist group by U.S. in 2013 (Chothia, 2015). Government officials admit they “could have done it sooner” (Kessler, 2014). To be designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), there is a procedure that must be followed, as well as criteria that must be met (Kessler, 2014). The criteria includes the determination that the organization’s terrorist…

ground? Only this week, the media reported of an acceptance by the Boko Haram sect of a ceasefire. The challenge with such a claim however, is that it cannot be verified since the sect has no known face to dialogue with. It is not just Boko Haram While the government is focused on tackling the Boko Haram challenges because it is in the front burner in the media, it is clear that Nigeria’s security challenges go well beyond Boko Haram. For example, a new group that calls itself Ansar Dine has…

Background on Boko Haram The Boko Haram is a terrorist organization whose belief is that the western way of education is a sin. By virtue of this, all of the thirty six states in Nigeria have to shun this ‘sin’, this western education and embrace the Islamic system of education. The Islamic system of education is in such a way that a child is brought up to learn and memorize the entire Quran in Arabic (not their native language), while also learning a few mainstream courses on the side. Now, the…