Truth about US report on Boko Haram – The Punch Newspaper

The United States’ latest report on the state of the anti-terror war in Nigeria bears a strikingly true reflection of the current situation in the country, though the focus was on last year. It is a story of the resurgence of a deadly group that was once driven to the fringes, but is now bouncing …

Confessions of a Boko Haram Defector MAIDUGURI/WASHINGTON —Voice Of America VOA

The way Bana Umar tells it, VOA and other broadcasters helped convince him to leave Boko Haram.Until the night of August 18, Umar was a fighter for the Islamist radical group, living at a camp in the vast Sambisa Forest, one of the group's long-time strongholds in northeastern Nigeria.The experience was certainly exciting. Umar says …