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May 9, 2014

Meservey: Not Much Hope In Nigeria

By Joshua Meservey

Africa Center Assistant Director Joshua Meservey writes for US News and World Report on why encouraging Nigeria’s government to change its approach to the terrorist organization Boko Haram is key to preventing future attacks in the country: 

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May 9, 2014

Pham: Drones Might Be Marginally Helpful [in Nigeria]

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham is quoted by NBC News on whether drones would be useful in locating the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the terrorist organization Boko Haram:

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May 9, 2014

Atallah and Bruton on Kidnapping of Nigeria Schoolgirls

By Rudolph Atallah, Bronwyn Bruton

Christian Science Monitor quotes Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton and Nonresident Senior Fellow Rudolph Atallah on the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist organization Boko Haram:

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May 9, 2014

“Boko Haram’s evolving threat”: J. Peter Pham report for the National Defense University

By J. Peter Pham

Worth reading again: two years ago Dr. Pham authored a report for the US National Defense University on Boko Haram that recent events in Nigeria have proven remains relevant today. In the brief, Dr. Pham reaches back to the 1940s to place the group in its proper social, historical, and political context, and traces its […]

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May 9, 2014

Pham: Global Outcry Shamed Nigerian Government into Accepting Help

By J. Peter Pham

The Washington Post quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by the terrorist organization Boko Haram:

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May 8, 2014

Atallah on Nigeria’s Abducted Schoolgirls

By Rudolph Atallah

Africa Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Rudolph Atallah joins BBC World News to discuss the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram:

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May 8, 2014

Bruton on Nigerian Schoolgirls Abduction

By Bronwyn Bruton

Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton joins WHYY’s Radio Times to discuss the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the terrorist organization Boko Haram (Segment begins at 22:05):

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May 7, 2014

Pham: Boko Haram Leader is Isolated, Extremist, and Delusional

By J. Peter Pham

The Washington Post quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on how the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls has brought Abubakar Shekau, leader of the terrorist group Boko Haram, into the international spotlight: 

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May 7, 2014

US help against Boko Haram: “Everything we can do” is not very much

By Bronwyn Bruton

Amid surging public outrage in Nigeria and abroad over Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 223 schoolgirls, President Barack Obama has promised that the United States will do “everything it can” to rescue them. His promise follows a pledge by Secretary of State John Kerry to do “everything possible” to help the Nigerian government defeat Boko Haram, […]

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May 7, 2014

Atallah on the Boko Haram Abduction of Nigerian Schoolgirls

By Rudy Atallah

Africa Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Rudolph Atallah is quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the terrorist organization Boko Haram:

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