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A Caliphate in Northeastern Nigeria?
Boko Haram chieftain Abubakar Shekau has announced in a video released on August 24 that the Borno town of Gwoza is now part of a caliphate and will be ruled according to strict Islamic law. The...
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A Special Report by the Nigeria Security Network and the Nigeria Security...
The Nigeria Security Network, a group of academics and think tankers, has issued a special report on the remarkable expansion of Boko Haram’s control in the northeastern state of Borno. It is a...
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The Military Balance in Northeast Nigeria
This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former...
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Nigeria Security Tracker: Weekly Update September 13- September 19
Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from September 13 to September 19, 2014. These incidents will be included in the...
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Is the International Response to Ebola Enough?
The Centers for Disease Control has modeled the possible spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (It did not address Ebola in Guinea.) Based on its computer models, it concludes that the range of...
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Negotiations to Free Nigeria’s Kidnapped Chibok School Girls
The Nation is carrying credible reports of negotiations between the Jonathan administration and Boko Haram that would swap the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls for nineteen Boko Haram “commanders.” The...
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Nigeria Security Tracker: Weekly Update September 19-September 25
Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from September 19 to September 25, 2014. These incidents will be included in...
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Ebola and Counterinsurgency—A Struggle for Legitimacy
This is a guest post by Colonel Clint Hinote. He is the 2014-2015 U.S. Air Force Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The opinions expressed here are his own. As the United States sends...
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Heavy Weapons
The Nigerian military has announced that it captured from Boko Haram a “T-55 armored tank” and a “highly sophisticated” armored personnel carrier during a battle near the town of Konduga in Borno...
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The Boko Haram War Machine
This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Allen is an officer in the U.S. Army National Guard. In early September there were...
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Pathetic International Response to Ebola Thus Far
Ebola is not showing the international community at its best. Even as Ebola panic seems to be spreading internationally, with possible new cases in Macedonia and the Czech Republic and Ebola deaths in...
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Nigeria’s Chibok School Girl Kidnapping Six Months Later
On the night of April 14-15, 2014 up to three hundred girls from different schools in northeastern Nigeria gathered for their final examinations in the town of Chibok. Instead of taking their tests,...
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Ebola Threatens ‘Africa Rising’ and Strains Relations Across the Continent: A...
This is a guest post by Brooks Marmon, Accountability Architect at the Accountability Lab. Brooks was previously based in the Lab’s Liberia office and recently completely an extended assignment in...
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Maybe Better News on Ebola?
The New York Times and other media are reporting a drop in Ebola infection rates and empty beds in the emergency field hospitals set up by the U.S. military in Monrovia. While there is Ebola all along...
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Attacks a French Facility
Boko Haram has launched expanded operations in Gombe state, with numerous killings and burnings. Several media outlets report that among Boko Haram’s targets was a Lafarge cement facility in the town...
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Can the U.S. Help Nigeria Confront Boko Haram?
For a long time Nigeria was Washington’s most important strategic partner on issues of security and stability in Africa. But, the Boko Haram insurgency and Abuja’s response to it has put that...
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Nigeria Security Tracker: Weekly Update November 29-December 4
Below is a visualization and description of some of the most significant incidents of political violence in Nigeria from November 29 to December 4, 2014. These incidents will be included in the Nigeria...
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Nigerians Impressed: the All Progressives Congress Convention
This is a guest post by Jean Herskovits, research professor of African history at SUNY-Purchase. Dr. Herskovits has been watching Nigeria’s politics at first hand for decades. She visits frequently,...
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Corruption and “Sharing Nigeria’s Cake”
In the BBC News Letter from Africa series, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani analyzes a nexus between politics, culture, and corruption. She shows that political office confers “a...
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“Je Suis Charlie” and Northern Nigeria
In the aftermath of the January 7 Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a separate but apparently related January 9 attack on a Jewish supermarket, both in Paris, over 3...
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