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I nord lever 72 prosent av befolkningen under fattigdomsgrensen, mens bare 27 prosent i sør.  Årsaken til økt ekstremisme i landet er derfor misnøyen med klasseforskjellene. Dette er de store økonomiske forskjellene mellom kristne og muslimer, mellom sør og nord. En liten del av hensikten med terroren er å fremprovosere voldelig reaksjoner fra myndighetene, som igjen skal forsterke misnøyen i befolkningen mot staten og militæret for å øke støtten til Boko Haram.  Boko Haram angriper både staten og lokalt muslimsk lederskap. Så selv om Boko Haram kjemper for såkalte islamske verdier, er rundt 90 prosent av deres ofre andre muslimer under begrunnelsen av at Boko Haram ikke er rettroende.

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The Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Monday claimed responsibility for kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria last month and threatened to sell them, while protesters continued to press the government to rescue them.

"I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah,'' Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in the video, according to the French news agency AFP.

Boko Haram on April 14 stormed an all-girls secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno state, then packed the teenagers onto trucks and disappeared into a remote area along the border with Cameroon.

The militants kidnapped more than 300 teens, Nigerian police sources previously had indicated. Of those, 53 reportedly escaped and 276 still are captive. An intermediary for Boko Haram said two of the captives have died of snakebites and 20 are ill, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

The teens' abductions have embarrassed the government and threaten to overshadow its first hosting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) for Africa. The three-day gathering is scheduled to open on Wednesday.

Nigerian officials had hoped the event would highlight their country's potential as an investment destination since it became Africa's biggest economy after a GDP recalculation in March.

Protest leader arrested

On Sunday, authorities arrested a leader of a protest staged last week in Abuja that had called on them to do more to find the girls. The arrest has further fueled outrage against the security forces.

Naomi Mutah Nyadar was picked up by police after she and other demonstrators met with President Goodluck Jonathan's wife, Patience, concerning the girls.

Nyadar was taken to Asokoro police station, near the presidential villa, said fellow protester Lawan Abana, whose two nieces are among the abductees.

Police were not immediately available to comment on the incident, but a presidential source said Nyadar had been detained because she had falsely claimed to be the mother of a missing girls. Abana denied making the claim.

In a statement, Patience Jonathan denied local media reports that she had ordered Nyadar's arrest, the state-owned News Agency of Nigeria said.

She also urged protesters in Abuja to go home.

"You are playing games. Don't use school children and women for demonstrations again. Keep it to Borno, let it end there," the agency quoted her as saying.

Demonstrations continuing

More protests were planned for Monday. These could become a major headache for the government if they continue during the economic forum, where security arrangements will involve some 6,000 army troops.

On Sunday, Nigeria's president said the government was doing everything possible to rescue the girls but admitted he didn't know where they were.

"Let me reassure the parents and guardians that we will get their daughters out,'' Jonathan said.

A father of one of the teens told VOA he felt helpless. "We cannot do anything," the unidentified man said. "... So what are we going to do? We just keep on praying and fasting. ..."

Unconfirmed reports say some of the girls have been "married" to their captors, while others allegedly have been moved across the border into Cameroon and Chad.

Boko Haram, now considered the main security threat to Africa's leading energy producer, has grown bolder. The kidnapping occurred on the same day as a bomb blast, also blamed on Boko Haram, that killed 75 people on the edge of Abuja and marked the first attack on the capital in two years.

The militants, who say they are fighting to reinstate a mediaeval Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria, repeated that bomb attack more than two weeks later in almost exactly the same spot, killing 19 people and wounding 34 in the suburb of Nyanya.

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Nigeria's Boko Haram Threatens to Sell Kidnapped Schoolgirls

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The Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Monday claimed responsibility for kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria last month and threatened to sell them, while protesters continued to press the government to rescue them. "I abducted your girls.

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En verdikonflikt er en konflikt innenfor religion, moral, politikk, livsstil, spørsmål om liv og død osv. Vi kan si at konflikten i Nigeria mellom Islamistgruppen Boko Haram og de kristne i landet er en verdikonflikt. Konflikten er først og fremst mellom to ulike religioner, Islam og Kristendommen, hvor begge religionene har sterke verdier og konflikten handler om religiøs identitet. Dette har ført til store uenigheter.

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FN har valgt å holde seg utenfor konflikten i Nigeria. Grunnet mangel på interesse for krigsassistanse fra nigerianske myndigheter, har FN blitt en utestående part. Likevel har FN fulgt verdikonflikten nøye som et resultat av flere terroraksjoner av Boko Haram.

26. august 2011 utførte Boko Haram et terrorangrep hvor en bilbombe traff FN-bygningen i Abuja. 21 mennesker omkom i dette angrepet. Aksjonen gjorde Boko Haram til en internasjonal trussel, og markerte starten på utvidelsen av deres operasjoner rettet mot internasjonale interessepunkter.

I 2014 ble terrorgruppen lagt til i FNs sanksjonsliste over grupper i samarbeid med Al-Qaeda.

Natten mellom 14. og 15. april i 2014 kidnappet Boko Haram 276 skolejenter i Chibok.

Siden 2017 har FN vært i Nigeria for å redde så mange skolejenter som mulig. Selv om mange jenter har blitt reddet eller har klart å rømme, er fortsatt 112 savnet.

I en uttalelse av FN den 13. april kom det frem at Boko Haram til sammen, siden 2013 bortført over 1000 barn. FN konkluderer derfor at konflikten ikke viser tegn for å stanse.

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Sharia er Islamsk lov som ble vedtatt av flere delstater mellom 1990 og 2000, noe som førte til at de religiøse motsetningene ble skjerpet. Flere hold presset regjeringen til å få stoppet dette. Regjeringen valgte derfor å forby Sharia-lovgivning i februar 2000. Likevel praktiseres Sharia i enkelte delstater, noe som har ført til voldelige sammenstøt mellom myndighetene og islamistiske grupper. Islamistgruppen Boko Haram står fremst i rekken blant islamistgruppene, og bruker terrorisme for å oppnå politiske mål.

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"Boko Haram" = "vestlig utdanning er en synd"

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"Boko Haram" = "vestlig utdanning er en synd"

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Gruppen har utspring fra en konflikt mellom kristne og muslimer i landet. Gjennom historien har landet delt seg slik at kristne holder til i sør, og muslimer i nord. Denne militante gruppen forakter vestlig utdanning og praktisering av vestlig religioner, dette har sine røtter fra koloniseringen av Afrika. Deres ideologi går dermed ut på en lang tradisjon av motstandsbevegelser i Nigeria. Deres mål er å "vaske" all Kristendom, for så å ende opp med en "ren" Islamistisk stat.

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Terrorgruppen hevder at navnet på gruppen betyr at all sivilisasjon i den vestlige delen av verden er forbudt.
Motstand mot "vestlig utdanning" kommer at den tiden hvor britene tok kontroll over Nigeria i 1903. Terrorgruppens mål er å innføre Sharia-lovene i hele Nigeria. Gruppen har lenge vært i konflikt med regjeringen og de kristne.

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Boko Haram er en  islamistisk terrororganisasjon som holder til nord i Nigeria, men som også opererer i nabolandene Niger, Tsjad og Kamerun. I 2009 begynte terrorgruppen Boko Haram å bruke grov vold. Denne gruppen er ingen stor organisasjon på lik linje som IS og Al Qaida. De er slettes ikke sterke økonomisk. De skaffer penger ved å rane banker, plyndre og utpresse. De er imot vestlig utdanning og har en del motstandsbevegelser mot den kristne delen i Nigeria, som holder til i Sør. Abubakar Shekau står som dagens leder i denne terrorgruppen. De blir kalt "talibanere" av lokalbefolkningen.

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Ibrahim Tigli / Cape Town
There seems to be no stopping Boko Haram. This week alone we have heard the news of seven villages that have been raided by Boko Haram, leaving over 100 dead. These are not just Christian villages, but also Muslim villages who refuse to support Boko Haram.

However, due to the fact that almost 300 Chibok schoolgirls are still missing, these separate incidents have received little attention. Keeping in mind the fact that up to 5,000 people have already been killed, uniting upon humanity, the West has not withheld its help to the Nigerian army's struggle against this primitive organization to find the missing girls.

Western nations playing the 'saviour' role

Inviting all the regional nations to participate in a summit - including Nigeria, Chad, Benin and Niger - France took an important step helping the neighbors agree to work together to defeat Boko Haram. Just as Nigeria wanted, the summit resulted in the UN Security Council, France, the UK, the US and all UN registered nations black-listing and sanctioning the group.

In reality this decision was quite surprising, because the UNSC only usually makes such decisions if a threat is considered regional or international. Boko Haram has up until today only carried out attacks in Nigeria, with only rumors that that have also carried out attacks in Niger and Cameroon.

The UNSC decision took Boko Haram from being a local threat to becoming a regional threat. It is possible that this decision was made to justify Western operations in the region. One may argue that if Boko Haram is able to conduct three separate attacks in Nigeria in one day, they can of course do the same in Niger and Cameroon. On the other hand, one may interpret the hunt for the innocent kidnapped schoolgirls not to be limited to Boko Haram's location. Rather, it could be a bid to carry out a more widespread operation across the entire region with a hidden agenda.

The UK, which has sent a search plane to support the operations, is just one of the countries to promise its help. Israel has also promised intelligence help. However, the greatest help promised has been from the US. The US has spread the word through social media. President Obama and his wife have led a number of campaigns and protests across the US for the girls to be released. US-based Nigerian NGOs have started travelling the African continent to raise awareness of the atrocities committed by Boko Haram.

The US recently discussed sending 80 military experts to the Chad border to fight Boko Haram. Despite US officials opposing a wide-scale operation at the moment, the sending of this unit would be considered an expedition. The US has sent such units to Uganda in the past, but Uganda's geo-political and strategic position is very different to Nigeria. As there is nothing threatening US interests in Uganda, that region is not in need of a huge army.

A race for Nigeria's economy

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and has a mass of untouched natural gas reserves. It has a population of 170 million and is the continent's biggest consumer market. Despite the political instability, the Nigerian economy is growing, passing the growth rate of South Africa. Although growth has also been noted in Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana, they cannot catch up to Nigeria. Thus, investors are set to turn their attention to Nigeria.

Setting aside an extra budget, the Nigerian government has increased spending on defence by 130 billion Naira. With 22% of the country's budget assigned to the military, Nigeria is also set to sign arms deals with the US, Israel, the UK, France and China. France actually had no interest in making sales to Nigeria before, but after the events in the Ivory Coast, Nigeria became an economic partner. As for Israel, they have an important portion of the Nigerian defence market. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigador Lieberman in his visit to Nigeria signed 12 defence deals. The UK, not including the post independence years of 1960-1969, has been the main arms dealer to Nigeria.

Is the US playing Messiah?

If we look back on the military side of things, the US may still be yet to settle a unit in Chad, but their drone airbase in Niger is known to all. However, the US choosing Chad over Niger shows their plan to open up a new front. It is also known that 150 soldiers destined for Uganda are yet to be sent to fight Joseph Kony, as these soldiers are currently spread across Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Central Africa and South Sudan to train native soldiers. This way, they are controlling an even wider region in Africa. On one hand it could be said that the US, the UK, France and some NATO countries are strengthening their grip in the region as they watch the ongoing violence. It would not be misleading to say that in twenty years time, these forces will hold great influence over Africa's defence.

The US navy maintains soldiers in Guinea to fight the drug trade as well as piracy as part of an AFRICOM project, which also includes the coast of Cameroon, Nigeria and Benin. In 2010, the US wanted to set up a base in Lagos after Nigeria pull-out of an earlier agreement which was supposed to help stop illegal petrol exports from the Niger delta. After Nigeria agreed to forgive the Niger Delta Commission the plans for a US based were cancelled. However, now Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathon is turning back to the agreement, except now the critics of the establishment of a US base have been silenced, as the US soldiers are not coming for petrol, they are supposedly coming to support the country defend itself in the biggest struggle against terrorism in its history.

The US will now provide training for the Nigerian army near the Chad border so they can find the missing girls. However, it is clear that this training is not being given with good intentions. After all, is not the problems in Somalia caused by the US-back Ethiopian occupation? Was it not the US who trained Ethiopian troops to destroy the Union of Islamic Courts, which had adopted a moderate character? This occupation only led to instability in Somalia, which gave rise to radicalism.

In Nigeria, there is a huge Muslim population that the US is not taking into consideration. The US war on Boko Haram will affect this population the most. They are already suffering the most due to the Boko Haram attacks. With the radicalization of Ngeria's majority 80 million Muslims, the possibility of in Franz Fanon's words 'the Wretched of the Earth' headinf for a collision with the Western allies should not be forgotten.

Perhaps as was the case in Congo, Nigeria may be heading for a civil war. The US and France may be preparing to renew their lies about their intention to simply save people and bring peace the same way they lied regarding their interventions in the Uganda and Rwanda civil wars, which left a total of 5 million people dead.

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Boko Haram and US interests in Nigeria - World Bulletin

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Ibrahim Tigli / Cape Town There seems to be no stopping Boko Haram. This week alone we have heard the news of seven villages that have been raided by Boko Haram, leaving over 100 dead. These are not just Christian villages, but also Muslim villages who refuse to support Boko Haram.