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November 19, 2014

Nigeria
CFR Special Report: Better Governance, Not Force, Most Effective Tool to Fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram’s increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Christian viole…

October 25, 2011

Nigeria
Fallout from Qaddafi’s Death in Northern Nigeria

Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (C) leans on the shoulders of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (centre R) and President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh (centre L) as they laugh during a photocall befor…

Fallout from Qaddafi’s Death in Northern Nigeria

January 10, 2012

Nigeria
Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy Strikes Continue

The strikes appear to be gaining momentum, with oil and gas workers joining and some aviation shut down. The protests appear to be the strongest in Lagos and Kano, Nigeria’s two largest cities and w…

Demonstrators gather at a burning barricade during a protest against the elimination of a popular fuel subsidy that has doubled the price of petrol, at Gwagwalada on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital Abuja January 9, 2012

November 19, 2014

Nigeria
U.S. Policy to Counter Nigeria's Boko Haram

Overview The militant Islamist group Boko Haram's increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Chr…

April 19, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigerian Presidential Elections: The Devil Is in The Ballot Collating

People watch as electoral officers count the ballots after voting ended at a polling centre in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos April 16, 2011. (Akintunde Akinleye/Courtesy Reuters) International …

Nigerian Presidential Elections: The Devil Is in The Ballot Collating