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Good Luck/Bad Luck: Where’s Nigeria?

Good Luck/Bad Luck: Where’s Nigeria?

McLeod Group Blog, April 1, 2015

On March 15, 2015, the armies of Chad and Niger drove Boko Haram out of the Nigerian town of Damasak where it had been wreaking havoc for more than five months. The Nigerian military, one of the largest in Africa, was not part of the operation and was nowhere to be seen.

Long ago, in answer to a question about possible Canadian support for eastern Nigeria’s secessionist Biafra, Prime Minister Trudeau replied, ‘Where’s Biafra?’ One ...

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