For more than a decade, violent extremism in Nigeria was largely confined to the country's Northeast where militant Islamist movement  Boko Haram and its factions have waged an extended armed rebellion against the state. Over the past few years, however, the borderlands across Nigeria's North West and North Central regions have become a melting pot for Sahelian and local jihadists. The area, known as the Kebbi-Kainji-Borgu triangle, straddles the Nigerian states of Kebbi, Sokoto, Niger and part

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