Deutsche Welle quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on how the Boko Haram-ISIS alliance could lead to additional insurgents traveling to Nigeria to join Boko Haram:
J. Peter Pham of the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, sees a risk that people who were being prevented from going to Iraq or Syria would now join the Boko Haram insurgency. “Militants … may choose instead to go to northeastern Nigeria and internationalize that conflict,” he wrote in an email to the AP news agency.