Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s focus on combining a military offensive with the fight against poverty and corruption is the right approach in the battle against the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, a senior U.S. defense official has said.

“They understand military pressure by itself will not tackle the overall problem and understand the need for a truly integrated approach,” U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Amanda J. Dory said in an interview at the Pentagon in Washington, adding further that: “This is something the previous Nigerian government said, and had strategy documents to articulate such an approach, but they weren’t actually implementing.”

Buhari beat former President Goodluck Jonathan in elections this year after a campaign in which he pledged to end the threat of the insurgents who are trying to carve out an Islamic state in Africa’s biggest economy. He also promised to fight graft and narrow the gap between rich and poor.

The violence, mainly centred in Boko Haram’s stronghold of north-eastern Nigeria, has killed thousands of civilians and displaced more than a million since 2009, stunting economic development in one of the country’s poorest regions and forcing schools and markets to close. The insurgency captured international attention in April 2014 when the militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok, sparking a social media campaign known as

The U.S. announced last month it was sending as many as 300 non-combat troops to neighbouring Cameroon to bolster a regional force that’s fighting Boko Haram, including its intelligence-gathering activities.

Almost six months into his term, Buhari has relocated the army’s headquarters from Abuja to Maiduguri, the epicentre of the insurgency, replaced his top military chiefs and vowed to recover billions of dollars stolen in corruption scandals. Still, his plan to bring change risks being undermined by an economic slump from the low price of oil, the country’s main revenue earner.

“The application of military pressure does not address any of the so-called underlying grievances in an enduring way,” said Dory, who has met Buhari twice since he took office in May. The president visited Washington in July and she was in Nigeria last month.

The conflict has spilled across the borders, spurring neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger to join a multinational force to battle the militants. The coalition has helped dislodge rebels from some of their positions, although bombings in towns and cities continue.

While Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, which rules a self-declared caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, the U.S. views it as a predominately symbolic gesture, and there’s “limited evidence” to suggest they are actively cooperating, Dory said.

“This type of marriage of convenience is emerging in different contexts, but various strands of extremist organizations in Africa aren’t gathering into any type of coherent mass that is operating for the same purpose,” she said.

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Boko Haram must be flush out by December

We have cleared sambisa

We cannot achieve December deadline

Boko Haram emerge from sambisa again to battle military men at gwoza


What do we believe?

Anyway, I wish the Apc led govt good luck in his fight to end insurgency

seeing is believing, i want to believe

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I didn't particularly hear mention made of how buhari is combining military action with other developmental efforts in the north east and the entire country.

Hail pmb.

I don't know if PMB can meet up with the December deadline but if you all notice we are seeing less book haram news in newspapers and on TV , signs that their actions are being curbed by the defense forces.

In Kendrick Lamar voice: we're going be alright

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ril19:
I didn't particularly hear mention made of how buhari is combining military action with other developmental efforts in the north east and the entire country.

How would you know when all you do is crying over all threads for a defeated party.

Well to informed you! He has applied for a loan of $2bn for developing infacstructure and agricultural in the north east after the insurgence have been defeated.

SleekyGee:
I don't know if PMB can meet up with the December deadline but if you all notice we are seeing less book haram news in newspapers and on TV , signs that their actions are being curbed by the defense forces.

In Kendrick Lamar voice: we're going be alright

Exactly