Mali Attacks Carry Warnings for Nigeria

Mali Attacks Carry Warnings for Nigeria

JNIM is an evolving threat to West Africa’s coastal states By ADF When two armed groups launched coordinated attacks across Mali on April 25, including a stunning assault on the capital, Bamako, Saheed Babajide Owonikoko thought of Nigeria. A researcher with the Centre for Peace and Security Studies at Modibbo Adama University in eastern Nigeria’s Adamawa State, Owonikoko said Mali and Nigeria have much in common: Multiple extremist insurgent gr…