Boko Haram is no 'global terror' group
Standing among the ruins of her burnt-out school, with classes still being held because parents insisted on it, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri told me that she was not afraid. "There's nothing left for them to attack," she said, as students in yellow veils and green uniforms scampered past the scorched and crumbling walls.
The Islamist insurgency by the group that has become known as Boko Haram seemed especially grim back then, a relentless series of attacks leaving scores of civilians dead, mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Two years on, it has taken the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from their school in the remote north-east to draw global attention to the violence that has for years shaken parts of Nigeria.… Seguir leyendo »