Boko Haram Insurgency Likely to Fragment Nigeria

Boko Haram has succeeded in pushing Nigerian government troops from several states in Northeastern Nigeria, and this has in turn enabled Boko Haram to establish an unconventional form of “Sharia” government over its “caliphate”. Boko Haram has adopted and regionalized a Middle Eastern jihadi ideology and system of warfare to wreak havoc and devastation in...