Dan Ali Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/dan-ali/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Dan Ali Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/dan-ali/ 32 32 Nigerian media say South Africa will help fight Boko Haram https://jjcornish.com/2016/03/nigerian-media-say-south-africa-will-help-fight-boko-haram/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/03/nigerian-media-say-south-africa-will-help-fight-boko-haram/ Nigerian media is saying President Jacob Zuma has offered  South African collaboration with Nigeria in the war on terror – specifically in fighting Boko Haram. There’s no indication of this in the South African leaders’s speech to a joint session of parliament in Abuja or his toast at last night’s state dinner. Military strategist say: […]

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]]> Nigerian media is saying President Jacob Zuma has offered  South African collaboration with Nigeria in the war on terror – specifically in fighting Boko Haram.

There’s no indication of this in the South African leaders’s speech to a joint session of parliament in Abuja or his toast at last night’s state dinner.

Military strategist say: it’s complicated.

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South Africa’s presidency is putting the best possible spin on President Jacob Zuma two-day state visit to the West African giant.

After a press briefing delivered by Nigerian Defence Minister Dan Ali and his South African counterpart Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nquakula, local media said South Africa’s planning to help Nigeria fight Boko Haram.

Military strategists insist SANDF belt-tightening makes this impossible.

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