Multinational Joint Task Force Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/multinational-joint-task-force/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 07 May 2018 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 Multinational Joint Task Force Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/multinational-joint-task-force/ 32 32 More than 1 000 Boko Haram captives are rescued https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/more-than-1-000-boko-haram-captives-are-rescued/ Mon, 07 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/more-than-1-000-boko-haram-captives-are-rescued/ Security forces in Nigeria and neighboring states have rescued more than 1000 hostages held by Boko Haram in the northeast of the country. Most of the freed abductees are  women and children. There are also  some young men dragooned i to fighting for the terror group, International media has not independently verified the details from […]

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]]> Security forces in Nigeria and neighboring states have rescued more than 1000 hostages held by Boko Haram in the northeast of the country.

Most of the freed abductees are  women and children.

There are also  some young men dragooned i to fighting for the terror group,

International media has not independently verified the details from the Nigerian military who say the rescue operation was undertaken by the Multinational Joint Task Force.

Muhammadu Buhhari’s government has been claiming for three years to have beaten Boko Haram which is bent on establishing an Islamist caliphate in northeast Nigeria.

However the group, which has kidnapped thousands since it began an insurgency in 2009 has continued to carry out suicide bombings, gun raids and kidnappings.

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