{"id":48075,"date":"2015-01-26T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/economist_nigeria_and_boko_haram-the_black_flag_in_africa\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:30:39","slug":"economist_nigeria_and_boko_haram-the_black_flag_in_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48075","title":{"rendered":"(Economist) Nigeria and Boko Haram&#8211;The black flag in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Boko Haram becoming Africa\u2019s Islamic State? In its bloodlust and ambition to hold territory, it certainly resembles the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Boko Haram has carved out a \u201ccaliphate\u201d\u009d the size of Belgium in the impoverished north-eastern corner of Nigeria. And like IS, it is exporting jihad across post-colonial borders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What started as a radical but mostly political movement in 2002 has turned, especially since a heavy-handed crackdown in 2009, into a jihadist insurgency that has grown more violent every year. In April 2014 it abducted 276 girls from the town of Chibok. Some fled, some died, and many were sold into slavery or forced to \u201cmarry\u201d\u009d fighters. Now the uprising is spreading to other countries. A week ago, 80 Cameroonians were kidnapped. Chad is sending troops to help Cameroon; Niger and Benin also feel threatened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21640348-only-if-government-tackles-misrule-and-endemic-corruption-will-jihadist-group-be\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Boko Haram becoming Africa\u2019s Islamic State? In its bloodlust and ambition to hold territory, it certainly resembles the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Boko Haram has carved out a \u201ccaliphate\u201d\u009d the size of Belgium in the impoverished north-eastern corner<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48075\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,143,168,426,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}