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2025-08-03 Africa Subsaharan

Borno residents slam Nigeria's failed militant reintegration program

[MSN] Nigeria's Borno state is at the epicentre of an insurgency driven by the bad boy Islamist groups Boko Haram

... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
and its rival faction, the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
's West Africa Provincem or ISWAP.

Ali - not his real name - was a commander in ISWAP for almost a decade. Two years ago, he left the group in an amnesty deal offered by the Nigerian government.

But now he says he's ready to take up arms again:

"The government promised us jobs. That was the agreement. I don't have anything: no food, no job. When we go back, we are going to attack, fight a war so we can eat and feed our families."

Ali is from Maiduguri, Borno's capital city in Nigeria's northeast. After a few years of relative calm in the region, there has been a renewed spate of attacks.

At least 12 people were killed and many injured outside of Maiduguri in June when a suspectedjacket wallah'> ~~exploding trollop~~ female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a market. All indications point to either Boko Haram or ISWAP as being behind the attack.

While no group grabbed credit for the bombing, there's been a wave of recent Islamist attacks in Nigeria's northeast, particularly in Borno state, including attacks on military outposts and civilians.

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