Explaining the recent rise in Jihadist violence in Nigeria | DW News

Islam

In 2016, the Nigerian government launched a program to deradicalize Boko Haram insurgents and reintegrate them into society. Operation Safe Corridor was meant to reduce the membership of the jihadist group and - potentally - end the insurgency all together. Now, after years of relative calm, there's been a worrying upturn in violence in Nigeria’s Northeast. Estimates suggest more people were killed in the first half of this year than in all of last year. And a resurgence of Islamist attacks is

Tag-uri: Islam