Ex-general’s bid for re-election threatened by Boko Haram militants that he promised to destroy

When armed militiamen killed dozens in an attack on an isolated village in northern Nigeria this month, it was seen as a sign of rising levels of violence across Africa’s most populous nation, not least because it was the third attack that week with a death toll that ran into double digits.

Weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari announced his intention to seek a second term in elections due in February, his administration is under pressure as violence flares up across the country.

In the past month alone, scores have been killed in twin suicide bombings that bore the grisly trademarks of Boko Haram, and clashes between farmers and nomadic cattle herders in the ethnically mixed Middle Belt states have reached a critical point.

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