Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to “spare no effort” to defeat Boko Haram. To do so, he must get the military in order and ready to lead the fight against the Islamist threat. Reuters reports:
[…I]t has been Chad’s battle-hardened troops, and not Nigeria’s, that have led in the offensive, expelling Boko Haram from the major towns in the north in just a matter of weeks.
[…] Buhari has called Nigeria’s reliance on neighboring armies a disgrace and has vowed to restore the territorial integrity of Africa’s most populous nation. There is still work to be done.
Nigerian troops, lacking necessary training …read more
Source: The American Interest
