Boko Haram: Insurgency and the War against Terrorism in the Lake Chad Region

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Notes

1. Samuel Oyewole, ‘Boko Haram and the Challenges of Nigeria’s War on Terror’, Defense & Security Analysis, 29(3), 2013, pp. 253–262.

2. Jacob Zenn, ‘Boko Haram: Recruitment, Financing, and Arms Trafficking in the Lake Chad Region’, CTC Sentinel, 7(10), 2014, p. 5.

3. ‘Boko Haram Recent Attacks’, START Background Report, May 2014.

4. Thomas Fessy, ‘Boko Haram Attack: What Happened in Baga?’, BBC, February 2, 2015: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30987043.

5. Atta Barkindo, Benjamin Gudaku and Caroline Wesley, Our Bodies, Their Battleground: Boko Haram and Gender-Based Violence against Christian Women and Children in North-Eastern Nigeria since 1999, Working Paper No. 1, Nigeria’s Political Violence Research Network (NPVRN), Abuja, 2013; Human Rights Watch, Those Terrible Weeks in Their Camp: Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in Northern Nigeria, Human Rights Watch Report, October, 2014.

6. Faith Karimi, ‘Nigerian Refugees: UN Appeals for $174m for Victims of Boko Haram’, CNN, April 10, 2015: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/10/africa/nigeria-un-refugee-help/; ‘Boko Haram Attacks Force over 10,000 Cameroonians to Flee, Weeks after Killing 2,000 in Their “Deadliest Ever Attack”’, Mail Online News, January 21, 2015: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918719/Boko-Haram-attacks-force-10-000-Cameroonians-flee-weeks-killing-2-000-deadliest-attack.html.

7. Emad Mostaque, ‘The Spreading Menace of Boko Haram’, The Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2015: http://www.wsj.com/articles/emad-mostaque-the-spreading-menace-of-boko-haram-1422315934.

8. Peter Clottey, ‘Cameroon Reviewing Military Strategy after Boko Haram Attacks’, VOA News, July 27, 2014: http://www.voanews.com/content/cameroon-reviewing-military-strategy-after-boko-haram-attacks/1966165.html.

9. Ngala Chimtom, ‘Boko Haram Strikes in Cameroon as Foreign Troops Arrive from Chad’, CNN, January 18, 2015: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/18/africa/cameroon-chad-troops-boko-haram/.

10. ‘Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Prospects for Defeating Boko Haram Look Bleak’, The Guardian, January 22, 2015: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/nigeria-prospects-defeating-boko-haram-look-bleak; ‘Chad Troops Enter Nigeria to Fight Boko Haram’, Al Jazeera, February 3, 2015: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2015/02/chad-troops-enter-nigeria-fight-boko-haram-150203175257536.html.

11. ‘2000 Nigerian Soldiers Undergoing Counterterrorism Training’, Defence Web, March 14, 2012: <http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view= article&id=24352:2000-nigerian-soldiers-undergoing-counterterrorism-training&catid=56:diplomacy-a-peace&Itemid=111>.

12. Amnesty International, Nigeria: More than 1,500 Killed in Armed Conflict in North-Eastern Nigeria in Early 2014, Amnesty International Publications, London, 2014.

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Samuel Oyewole

Samuel Oyewole is pursuing his Masters in Political Science at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.