Who Are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist Insurgents?

(Farouk Chothia’s article direct from the BBC NEWS AFRICA on 7 May 2014.)




Boko Haram threatening to sell the kidnapped girls.

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko
Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave
of bombings, assassinations and now abductions - is fighting to overthrow the
government and create an Islamic state.


Its followers are said to