Boko Haram exporting terror violence

The UN Security Council has demanded that Nigeria’s terrorist group Boko Haram disarm and demobilise.

The charity Oxfam says violence by the Islamist group has displaced 1.5 million people within the country.

One man who fled his home said people without means simply leave on foot, resting in the barren bush, with nothing to eat, and that pregnant women give birth under these conditions, with no medical support.

More and more of Nigeria has also become environmentally inhospitable due to severe deforestation.

Of the 36 states in Africa’s most populous country (170 million people), three are under state of emergency law. Critics of the government condemn its inability to help people, and yet the Adamawa State Public Affairs Director Phineas Elisha redirected scorn towards the violence of Boko Haram, saying it mimics the movement ISIL’s state-founding ambitions in Iraq and Syria.

Elisha dismissed those ambitions as the stuff of “...imagination, just telling people they have t