BOKO HARAMA GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT

Boko HaramBoko‘Western Education’ ‘Ilimin boko’

Forbidden, sinful Opposite of Halal

Haram

WHO IS BOKO HARAM?

An Islamic extremist group

Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and

Jihad

Allegiance to ISIS

The Economist (Jan 2015)

• NORTH-EAST NIGERIA • NIGER • CHAD • NORTH CAMEROON

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Vice News (April 2015)

• NORTH-EAST NIGERIA • NIGER • CHAD • NORTH CAMEROON

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• MUSLIMS • CHRISTIANS • STATES WITH SHARIA LAW

20 000PEOPLE KILLED

SINCE 2009

2.3MILLION

DISPLACED FROM HOME

300% INCREASE IN VICTIMS IN

2014

STATISTICS

TIMELINE

2009 2013 2015MILITARY LAUNCH

TERRORIST GROUP

2014

CALIPHATE

WORLD’S DEADLIEST

TERROR GROUP

MUSLIMS

CHRISTIANS

ETHNIC GROUPS

CAUSES & FACTORS (HISTORY)

CURRENT/RECENT CONFLICTS

POLICE AND CHRISTIANS TARGETED

2015 BAGA

MASSACRE

2014 SCHOOLGIRL KIDNAPPING

ABDUCTION OF WOMEN

OUR OPINION (WHO’S RIGHT?)

OUR SOLUTIONS

THE FUTURE

“OUR STRENGTH AND FIREPOWER IS BIGGER THAN THAT OF NIGERIA. NIGERIA IS

NO LONGER A BIG DEAL TO US, AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED. WE WILL NOW COMFORTABLY

CONFRONT THE USA.”