The Sambisa Forest in Nigeria’s North-Eastern state of Borno is larger than many countries at 60,000 square kilometers. It’s a former game hunting reserve, home to distinctively sparse vegetation, elephants and the world’s deadliest terror group – the Boko Haram.
Nigeria’s war against Boko Haram is riddled with inconsistencies. Merely six months after Muhummadu Buhari won the Nigerian election in March 2015, on the promise of crushing the terror outfit, the country’s defense spokesperson announced that Boko Haram had been “militarily defeated and weakened.” On December 27, 2016, President Buhari announced that the group had been ‘crushed’ – by which he meant, driven into their final stronghold in the forest.
Yet, the outfit’s stronghold in the forest remained unconquered. Only a few weeks ago, on June 25, the terrorists released a video showing their members praying in the forest. It features a 12-year-old boy with an AK-47, declaring:
You are saying you have finished us; it is a lie, we are here and you have not finished us.
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