Buffeted by insurgent attacks in Nigeria’s northeast and northwest, the Nigerian army is bracing itself for more challenges, including mega-fraud by arms procurers. “Nigeria’s army is stretched thin,” according to David Otto, a London-based defense consultant for the Nigerian Defense Ministry. The competition between two terrorist groups claiming the mantle of ISIS was decided in late May with the suicide of longtime Boko Haram leader Abubaker Shekau by self-detonation. His death allowed the larger and better-organized ISWAP terrorist group, previously part of Boko Haram, to solicit the loyalty of Shekau’s remaining terrorists and forge a unified effort to create a caliphate. It didn’t take long for the other shoe to drop. ISWAP terrorists struck a Cameroonian military base at 4:00 a.m. on July 24, killing eight soldiers, and struck again in the same area on the evening of July 26, according to reporter Akua Nalova Mambeh, covering for The Epoch …
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