Nigerian Military Failing to Defeat Boko Haram, Report Says

The Nigerian military’s drive to destroy the Boko Haram Islamist group is failing and won’t work unless it also protects and wins the trust of local communities, according to a report by Chatham House.

“Any effort to destroy Boko Haram without complementary strategies for negotiations and sufficient provisions for alternatives to membership of the movement will fail,” Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, an associate fellow at London-based Chatham House, said in the report released today. “The sect will simply adapt, move and continue.”