![]() ![]() Libya’s civil war, which has flooded North Africa with weapons, has also left Nigeria vulnerable.īoko Haram - Hausa for “Western education is sinful” - was founded in 2002. ![]() “It is automatic that you would look to the largest Muslim state in Africa to expand.”īefore his death last May, Osama bin Laden identified Nigeria, with its sharp Christian-Muslim divide, as a key arena for global sectarian warfare. With AQIM operating in Nigeria’s neighbours - Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Algeria - it would only be “natural” for the group to gravitate toward Nigeria, said Paul Lubeck, an expert on the region at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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