Boko Haram : A Serious Problem

The Boko Haram sect in Nigeria has been a huge problem for the country in the past, and the threat is only growing. This group is considered responsible for a handful of government attacks, targets on the United Nations, and often churches who undermine the Islamic religion. Their actions have spawned from the idea that their country is controlled by “fake Muslims”, and aim to create an Islamic nation ruled with Sharia law.

Boko Haram are motivated by a Jihadist version of Islam and is believed to be believers of the one true interpretation of the (Brinkel & Ait-Hida, 2012, p. 16). Their ultimate goal to create a true Islamic state in Nigeria directly associated with Sharia law. (Chothia, 2015, p. 5). The group has maintained their secrecy and the authorities have yet to be captured by law enforcement. Boko Haram is seen to have many basic views including their religious motivations, political downfall, and their extreme actions taken on the people of Nigeria. Boko

In an attempt to gain local perspective of the most recent terror attacks in Western Africa, reporter Carley Petesch of the Associated Press has been stationed in the region as their lead West-African correspondent. In the article she discusses how the beach massacre in Ivory Coast and the attack on a Mali hotel have forced the United Nations and European Union to dispatch troops to the area, with the hopes of improving local security measures. She speaks with locals and an area security consultant to discuss how the terrorist group known as Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continue to terrorize the region, and local governments are in need of international assistance to prevent future attacks.

In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the United States, including its allies, waged brutal campaigns directed at the Al Qaeda leadership and, the Taliban in the Middle East. America’s fight against terrorism nonetheless consumed billions of dollars since the 9/11 attacks. Earlier, countries such as England, Spain, Italy, and Russia, similarly waged wars against the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the Red Brigades and the Chechnya separatists. In most of these cases, research shed light on the mechanisms that led to the demise or the defeat of these terrorist groups. However, when it comes to similar groups located in the southern hemispheric countries such as Nigeria, the mechanisms leading to the group

Over the last 13 years, since the attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 the world has been exposed to the global threat of extremist ideologies. Service men and women have had a firsthand view of the breeding grounds and environments such ideologies are harbored and developed. With the drawdown of the war in Afghanistan, the global war on terrorism will not end. Instead the focus will shift to other dangerous parts of the world where extremists have already become established; places like Somalia in the Horn of Africa. The weak government in Somalia has fostered an environment conducive to the development of extremist ideologies. This is evident

This article was about the Nigerian school girls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram about two years ago. The author wrote about how the search for the girls isn’t over as well as how the girls rescues are being planned, but the military and government officials from America are afraid that if they attempt to rescue one group of the girls the other will suffer because of it. African officials are afraid that Boko Haram is making the school girls become suicide bombers or giving them the option to become suicide bombers to escape the lives they are facing. They believe that the girls are choosing to be suicide bombers to escape the lives of being trapped, used for childbearing and abused that they have been forced into.

Boko Haram have been known to switch their attack tactics due to Nigerian security forces catching up on them. To begin with, from 2009 to 2014 most attacks carried out by Boko Haram were by armed assaults, which resulted in 63% of the deaths that year (Pricopi,2016). Not only did Boko Haram conduct attacks using armed assaults but they also used bombs as well. In fact, bombing tactics in 2013 were used in 35 incidents; however, that number increased by three times in 2014, making it used in 107 incidents(Pricopi,2016). Also, in that same year the number of civilians attacked in public places also increased as well. Suicide attacks, were also another tactic used by Boko Haram and in 2014, they accounted for atleast 31 of those attacks

The Al-Shabaab is regarded as one of the most dangerous African terrorist organizations. Al-Shabaab is a multiethnic militant group out of Somalia that uses many terrorist tactics in attempts to gain control over the country of Somalia. They use many forms of terrorism that include ideological revolutionary, dissident, and nationalist terrorism, as they have the motive to gain power over a territory by overthrowing the government. The Al-Shabaab is suspected to have taken part in many terrorist attacks, including the 1998 United States embassies bombings. The motive behind their violence is their goal of creating an Islamic state in Somalia, which they believe is morally justified by the ideological beliefs. An important psychological

The article, “Boko Haram and Mass Starvation” discusses about a current crisis happening in Northern Africa in the Sahel region suffering from starvation due to raids conducted by the Boko Haram. Recent coalition efforts from the Nigerian army and coalition forces removed major supply lines to the Boko Haram forcing fighters to raid and ransack villages to appease their hunger. The people living in Northern Nigeria with no established supply lines face an imminent threat of mass starvation due to the threats and instability in the surround area. I agree the point the writer is establishing by creating safe, secure farming sectors across the region to feed thousands of starving people and the current top priority of distributing emergency aid

The article discusses the fact that the U.S. Military believes that two of the largest,most well known, and feared terrorist groups are joining forces; Boko Haram and ISIS. It goes into detail about the tactics used by Boko Haram and how unethical these tactics are such as strapping explosives to birds and having children deliver the explosives to markets. They believe that the two terrorist groups are beginning to get more close so they can plan attacks against American allies that are located in North and Central Africa. Boko Haram has already pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) but now it looks like they'll join forces in combat and there's no telling what they could do

This began to set the stage for the primary form of terror used by Boko Haram. However, many of Boko Haram’s fighters were in Mali, fighting alongside AQIM against the French incursion into Mali’s civil war. It wasn’t until early 2014 that Boko Haram became world famous. During the night of 14-15 April, 2014, Boko Haram militants infiltrated a boarding school for young girls in Chibok, Nigeria. This resulted in the kidnapping of 219 school-aged girls, and a yearlong attempt to recover them. Eventually, the girls were released, however, many had been taken to other African countries and sold as sex slaves, or forced to convert to Islam and marry soldiers of Boko Haram. While kidnapping is still a

Kydd and Walter (2006) define terrorism as actions focusing on harming some people in order to create fear in others by targeting civilians and facilities or system on which civilians rely. However, the scope of the operation of the Boko-Haram sect has gone beyond civilian targets including Police and Military establishments. This paper acknowledges that discussions on the subject

Personal engagement in Boko Haram also varies widely among its membership; while some are foot soldiers or bomb makers, others are strategists, ideologues, criminals, spies, abductors or suicide bombers. Mercy Corps’s report from interviews conducted with arrested or former Boko Haram members further reveals that there was no relationship between membership and being poor or relatively comfortable, between employment status and participation, between level or type of education (whether religious or secular) or marital status but all members interviewed practiced Islam as their faith; religion was at the foreground for some, and for others it was merely a backdrop to their lives. Although, it is general knowledge that radical and insurgent or fringe groups that utilize violence to achieve their goals only need a few hundred committed, loyal and unwavering members, recruitment into Boko Haram showed that the process of getting loyal, unwavering members included adapting the emotions of such

Abstract: Human Rights is a norm that describes human behavior, and it is protected in legal rights whether in national or even international law. The importance of human rights has been implemented in Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by United Nations. Every country that signed the declaration has to abide the declaration. In Nigeria, Nowadays, there is some case that victimized more than 200 schoolgirls. A jihad group called Boko Haram abducted the schoolgirls. Boko haram is a jihad group, which forbids a western education. It leads by Abubakar Shekau, which became a most wanted man in Nigeria. Because of this case, I want to emphasize the victim’s rights that we known as Human Rights and specialize to Children’s Rights. This thesis will be focus to whether 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram is a challenge of children's rights by United Nations and also for Nigeria’s Government itself.

material. However, some religiously inspired individuals and groups have expressed intention in their terrorist propaganda to use CBRN materials in terrorist attacks with an attempt to cause mass casualties. However in late December 2013, an anarchist organisation in Greece intended to carry out a CBRN scenario involving food poisoning.