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]]> Pretoria-based mercenary recruiter is boasting South African hired guns helped Nigerian forces turn the tide against Boko Haram.
Eben Barlow tells a London newspaper and the Royal Danish Defence College in Copenhagen that his group of mainly white South African ex-soldiers were recruited by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Abuja’s official line is that Boko Haram is in the run after a six year reign of terror in north east Nigeria thanks to help from forces from neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Eben Barlow says the success is down the 100 South African mercenaries engaged to train Nigeria’s demoralised soldiers.

Most them fought in South Africa’s border war 30 years ago.

Barlow himself is 62.

Barlow says his men are also part of the fruitless search for the 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok more than a year ago.

 

 

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