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[quote author=assent post=107746134][/quote]Exactly my point

[quote author=assent post=107746246][/quote]Exactly my point

Who gave the order?

[quote author=assent post=107746501][/quote]Exactly my point

dre11:
https://punchng.com/nigeria-risks-us-arms-embargo-over-alleged-protesters-killings-by-soldiers/

The same America that profits whenever there is arms conflicts in Africa abi na another one

[quote author=assent post=107747337][/quote]Exactly my point

Phcmayor:
For all one Nigerian supporters the worst is coming

It will be worst for the other West Africa nations. And America will not be able to save them. Already Nigeria don run go Ivory Coast to discus how to help the other West African nations if France pulls out her forces as France wants to do.

For me, Nigeria is stupid to consider working for the defense of Wes Africa against jihadist. With possible embargo from America, Nigeria should be looking to consolidate what little Nigeria has for the benefit of Nigeria alone. Leave the various Wes African nations to fend for themselves against the coming storm.

Sahel jihadists: West Africa faces up to policing its terror triangle

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13022/production/_120385877_gettyimages-1184517945_976549_afp.png

With Chad's withdrawal of troops and the imminent reduction in French troop strength from the vast Sahel region of West Africa - where jihadist groups continue to stage attack after attack, targeting civilians and soldiers without discrimination - new anti-terror tactics are afoot.

Defence ministers from the G5 Sahel countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger - are planning more joint military operations and greater "hearts and minds" engagement.

This will target the farming and livestock herding communities of the "three-border region", where Burkina, Niger and Mali converge and militant activity is at its most intense.

In finalising the new approach at defence talks this week in the Nigérien capital Niamey, the G5 nations are taking the strategic lead.

France is stepping back into a support role, after President Emmanuel Macron recently announced that its counter-terrorism Operation Barkhane was coming to an end with French troop numbers in the Sahel being cut from 5,100 to 2,500-3,000 over the next few months.

More immediately Niger, Mali and Burkina have had to take account of Chad's abrupt decision in August to reduce its force in the three borders region from 1,200 troops to just 600.

The transitional Chadian regime in charge since the death of President Idriss Déby in April decided that it needed to bring half the contingent back home to tackle local security threats.

These include:

Nigeria-based Boko Haram and its off-shoot group Iswap, which continue to raid communities on the shores of Lake Chad
The overspill impacts of conflict between rebels and government in the neighbouring Central African Republic.
And in the desert north of Chad itself, homegrown insurgents who may still threaten - despite government efforts to agree frontier security arrangements with Libya.

But while the N'Djamena junta's choice of priorities is entirely understandable, where does that leave the struggle against the jihadists in the central Sahel?
Motorbikes massacres

Human Rights Watch estimates that 420 civilians have been killed this year in western Niger alone.

Recent attacks have been typical.

On 16 August gunmen on motorbikes burst into the village of Dareye-Daye, which had already been raided in March, and massacred 37 people.

Just two days later 47 civilians and gendarmes died when a military convoy was attacked between Dori and Arbinda in the north of Burkina Faso.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58438905

Nigeria is in total mess

[quote author=assent post=107751565][/quote]Exactly my point

[quote author=assent post=107751640][/quote]Exactly my point

Long overdue. These two security outfits are poster entities for what irresponsibility stands for. Their credo of service, it seems, is force, force and more force. You hardly find any sane one between these two outfits who thinks differently, who has the spirit of what it takes to interact with the public and engage with it on social issues.
The arms embargo is welcomed. It will weaken the government as a result, and it would allow the agitating nations,locked inside Nigeria ,and oppressed by a herd of backward dimwits, to gather arms for liberation.

[quote author=assent post=107754271][/quote]Exactly my point