via bloomberg.net:
The Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram expressed support for the attackers who killed 12 people at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a new video.
The Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram expressed support for the attackers who killed 12 people at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a new video.
“We are very happy with what happened at the heart of France,” Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau said in an eight-minute video posted on YouTube that couldn’t immediately be verified. “Oh you French people, oh you who follow the religion of democracy, between you and us is enmity to eternity,” said the man, speaking in Arabic and holding an AK-47 assault rifle.
Three gunmen stormed the offices of weekly Charlie Hebdo in eastern Paris on Jan. 7. Millions of people in France and across the world marched in rallies in the past week to show solidarity with the victims and defend freedom of expression.
Nigeria’s military has repeatedly claimed to have killed Shekau, and in October the authorities said they had agreed a cease-fire with the group. Since then, violence in the mainly Muslim north has continued unabated.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “appalled” at attacks last week in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga near the border with Chad. Reports that as many as 2,000 people died in the assaults on Baga are unfounded, Nigeria’s military said, with initial evidence showing the death toll didn’t exceed 150.
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Territorial Gains
Violence in the northeast threatens to disrupt voting in Nigeria’s presidential election, scheduled for Feb. 14, residents said this month.
“Boko Haram continues to focus on consolidating its territorial gains in the extreme northeast, while also hitting northern cities further afield with one-off bombings,” Poole, U.K.-based security consultancy Drum Cussac said in e-mailed comments today. “In these regions, militants appear undeterred by counterinsurgency operations, attacking both remote security and civilian targets with near impunity.”
In another video posted on YouTube on Jan. 7, Shekau threatened Paul Biya, president of neighboring Cameroon, whose armed forces have in recent weeks intensified their campaign against the rebels’ cross-border incursions.
Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of in Chibok in April. In video messages after the abduction, Shekau threatened to sell them into slavery, and said many had been “married off.” Most of the children are still missing.
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