Nigeria

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, claimed that Nigerian police and soldiers, and not his fighters, killed the 186 people in Kano last week. President Jonathan Goodluck called for negotiations with Boko Haram.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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