The film revealed the sect’s world of torture and executions
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In one photo, the children are aiming their guns while in another they are posing with the weapons
The Nigerian security forces are struggling to contain the Boko Haram and Ansaru insurgencies now in their fourth year, while inter-ethnic and religious violence simmers in the Middle Belt. Expect an uptick in the Nigeria Security Tracker until Nigerian elections in 2015, as Nigeria remains on the brink
Ansaru’s internationalist tendency is likely the result of an al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb strategy to “shift” southwards by training new pan-West African groups like Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa and Ansaru, which I discussed in a recent article