Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2017 (NSC)
Reading List
Essential Resources
- “Boko Haram in Nigeria Case Study,” YouTube video, 4:27, posted by CFR Education, November 16, 2016.
- Claire Klobucista, “Nigeria’s Battle With Boko Haram,” CFR.org, August 8, 2018.
- “Nigeria Security Tracker,” CFR.org, July 1, 2023.
- “Boko Haram and the Crisis in Nigeria, Explained,” YouTube video, 2:41, posted by Vox, February 18, 2015.
- Farouk Chothia, “Who Are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists?” BBC Africa, November 24, 2016.
- “Nigeria,” in Amnesty International Report 2019: The State of the World’s Human Rights.
- U.S. Department of State, “Leahy Fact Sheet,” last modified, March 9, 2018.
- Zack Beauchamp, “The Crisis in Nigeria, in 11 Maps and Charts,” Vox, May 13, 2014.
- Human Rights Watch, “Nigeria: Events of 2019.”
- Dionne Searcey, “Nigeria Finds a National Crisis in Every Direction It Turns,” New York Times, July 17, 2016.
- “Trump Administration ‘to Sell Nigeria Planes’ for Boko Haram Fight,” BBC, April 11, 2017.
- U.S. Department of State, “U.S. Relations with Nigeria,” last modified December 19, 2019.
- YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
Additional Resources
- John Campbell, “Mixed Results in Evaluation of Multinational Effort Against Boko Haram,” Council on Foreign Relations, July 16, 2020.
- John Campbell, “Nigeria’s Buhari Administration, the Chibok Girls, and the ICRC,” CFR.org, October 20, 2016.
- Helene Cooper and Dionne Searcey, “U.S. Plans Sale of Warplanes to Nigeria for Fighting Boko Haram,” New York Times, April 11, 2017.
- Human Rights Watch, “Nigeria: Northeast Children Robbed of Education; Boko Haram’s Devastating Toll on Students, Teachers, Schools,” April 11, 2016.
- Ron Nurwisah, “82 Chibok Schoolgirls Released In Boko Haram Prisoner Swap,” HuffPost Canada, May 07, 2017.
- Dionne Searcey, “Women, Children and Razor Wire: Inside a Compound for Boko Haram Families,” New York Times, October 10, 2016.
- Lai Mohammed, “Nigeria’s Difficult Path to Lasting Peace with Boko Haram,” Al Jazeera, May 10, 2018.
- “Nigerian military jet 'mistakenly bombs refugee camp', killing more than 100 including 20 Red Cross volunteers,” Telegraph, January 17, 2017.
- Jacob Olidort, “What is Salafism? How a Nonpolitical Ideology Became a Political Force,” Foreign Affairs, November 24, 2015.