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Conley
12-31-2011, 05:10 PM
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in parts of the country following attacks from the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The measure is in force is areas of the Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the east.

International borders in the affected areas have been temporarily closed.

Mr Jonathan vowed to "crush" Boko Haram, which killed dozens in attacks across the country on Christmas Day.

Announcing the state of emergency in a live televised address, Mr Jonathan said: "The temporary closure of our borders in the affected areas is only an interim measure designed to address the current security challenges."

There is growing concern that Boko Haram has developed a presence across the region.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16373531

It seems Boko Haram has only grown stronger since the Christmas attacks. I wonder if the UN will take action.

Mister D
12-31-2011, 05:19 PM
Christmas attacks? Geez...

More pain for Nigeria. Almost every former colony has had a lot of heartache. This is only latest for Nigeria. I think the UN will drag its feet a bit. People just kind of expect this shit. It's sounds terrible and I guess it is but what can you do? Colonize Nigeria again?

MMC
12-31-2011, 05:39 PM
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Mister D
12-31-2011, 05:45 PM
That's Europe's backyard. Let them handle it.

MMC
12-31-2011, 06:00 PM
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Mister D
12-31-2011, 06:02 PM
Let me guess.....the French. Right? :laugh: :grin:

Nigeria was a British colony is I'm not mistaken. :wink:

MMC
12-31-2011, 06:22 PM
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Mister D
12-31-2011, 06:40 PM
:cool2: But the French control the IMF and the ECB. Not the Brits :grin:

What is Europe without France and Germany? It's the Brits former territory. They should deal with it. Besides, guess where all the refugees will be going if this gets much worse? They'll be setting sail for Europe.

MMC
12-31-2011, 07:05 PM
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Mister D
12-31-2011, 07:21 PM
I was just joking wth ya. I agree and it is the Brits resposibility.

I know. I should have put a smiley. :grin:

It's a tough situation though. No one is going to want to look like a colonial power.

waltky
05-29-2016, 09:50 PM
Militants attack oil facilities in Nigeria...
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Militants blow up Shell, Agip pipelines in Nigeria
Mon, May 30, 2016 - Militants on Saturday blew up strategic gas and crude pipelines belonging to Shell and Agip in an increasingly fierce campaign that has chopped Nigeria’s oil production in half, militants and residents said.


A new militant group, calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers, reported on social media that they had dynamited the trunkline linking the Dutch-British Shell company’s Bonny terminal and the Brass export terminal of Italian company Agip. Eke-Spiff Erempagamo, a local community leader, confirmed the attack. Nigeria’s oil production had already fallen from a projected 2.2 million barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day before the latest attacks on the oil industry in southern Nigeria, including three within the past week on facilities of US oil firm Chevron. Several companies have evacuated some of their workers.

The Niger Delta Avengers has given the oil companies a deadline of tomorrow to leave Nigeria’s southern, oil-producing Niger Delta. “Watch out, something big is about to happen and it will shock the whole world,” the Avengers said on Saturday, addressing international and indigenous oil companies and Nigeria’s military. Community leaders and activists have sided with the militants, saying residents of the Niger Delta support their demands for a greater share of the country’s oil wealth. The militants have also expressed anger that the Nigerian government is winding down a 2009 amnesty program that had paid 30,000 militants to help guard installations they once attacked. The government has deployed thousands of soldiers to defend oil installations.

The militant group on Friday announced that they had blown up a state-owned gas and crude trunkline, adding that it was “heavily guarded by the military.” Thousands of civilians have fled the fallout from the military campaign, though the Nigerian Army denies reports that uninvolved civilians have been killed. Supporters of the government and the southern-based opposition party are accusing each other of funding the Avengers. This year’s renewed campaign targeting the oil industry in the Niger Delta have caused Nigeria to lose its position as Africa’s largest oil producer, with Angola having taken the leading role since March.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/05/30/2003647486

Peter1469
05-30-2016, 07:21 AM
I believe the French are still in the area.

waltky
09-11-2016, 01:59 AM
Malnourishment rife in Nigeria...
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Nigeria facing ‘a famine unlike any’ we have seen
Sat, Sep 10, 2016 - CRISIS: Nearly a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished because trade and farming have been disrupted, UN Assistant Secretary-General Toby Lanzer said


The whimpers from thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come — a quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying. They are the latest victims of Boko Haram’s Islamic insurgency. No one knows how many more children are dying of starvation in refugee camps and areas too dangerous to access because of the extremists’ presence, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres, which runs the emergency feeding center. The aid group first sounded the alarm of a humanitarian crisis of “catastrophic” proportion in northeast Nigeria when Boko Haram lost its grip on some areas and its victims began to emerge. “These are kids that basically have been hungry all their lives and some are so far gone that they die here in the first 24 hours,” said Jean Stowell, an American doctor in charge of the center in Maiduguri, the biggest city in the largely Muslim region.

The 110-bed center has quadrupled in size in the past weeks, but each time it expands it rapidly fills. Nearly a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished because Boko Haram has disrupted trade and farming, UN Assistant Secretary-General Toby Lanzer warned at a meeting in Brussels on Thursday. About 2 million people in the region have not been reached “and we can’t assess their situation. We can estimate that it’s awful,” Lanzer said. With Nigeria in a recession and without speedy outside help “we will see, I think, a famine unlike any we have ever seen anywhere,” he added.


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Women feed their malnourished children at a feeding center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Maiduguri, Nigeria

About 1 million refugees from Boko Haram are crowded into camps in Maiduguri. Outside the camps, fresh produce is cruelly bountiful. Markets are filled with pineapples, oranges, cabbage, green beans, tomatoes and carrots, but most refugees cannot afford them and the Nigerian government is investigating reports of officials stealing food aid. Elsewhere, 1 million children are trapped in areas too dangerous to reach because of Boko Haram, the UN children’s agency estimated. Its effort to reach some of them was put on hold in July when the extremists attacked a military-escorted humanitarian convoy on a major highway and a rocket hit the windshield of an armored car. In the steamy heat inside the feeding center, Hassana Mohammed tried to breastfeed a baby while comforting 18-month-old Yakubu, who was too weak to swallow and was irritated by the intravenous drip that fed him through his nose.

Mohammed’s five children have known little but hunger and fear since Boko Haram killed her first husband when her eldest, seven-year-old Aisha, was just a month old. “We’ve been on the run ever since, but Boko Haram was never far away,” Mohammed said. “You will see some women dying in the bush during childbirth and some dying on the way while running because of hunger. Some will run and leave their children for their safety, now many children were left in the bush to die.” The hardest thing now is finding food, she said. When aid workers made it to her refugee camp in Maiduguri, an informal collection of huts made of plastic sheeting and palm leaves, she received four handfuls of rice. “It’s supposed to last a week, but we run out after just a day or two,” she said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2016/09/10/2003654870

donttread
09-11-2016, 10:01 AM
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in parts of the country following attacks from the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The measure is in force is areas of the Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the east.

International borders in the affected areas have been temporarily closed.

Mr Jonathan vowed to "crush" Boko Haram, which killed dozens in attacks across the country on Christmas Day.

Announcing the state of emergency in a live televised address, Mr Jonathan said: "The temporary closure of our borders in the affected areas is only an interim measure designed to address the current security challenges."

There is growing concern that Boko Haram has developed a presence across the region.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16373531

It seems Boko Haram has only grown stronger since the Christmas attacks. I wonder if the UN will take action.

Really? A country violemtly attacked closed it's borders? What a novel idea.