NIGERIA: THREAT OF SOPHISTICATED TERROR ATTACKS RISES AHEAD OF 2023 ELECTIONS

   Thu, 04 August 2022

Last month’s bold raid on one of Nigeria’s most secure prisons indicates that Islamic State and al-Qaeda aligned militant groups, with operational presence in different parts of the country’s northern regions, collaborated on surveillance and logistics, while also hinting that a merger of the two groups might become a reality. This trend sends urgent warnings to Nigerian authorities and raises the threat of more sophisticated and high-profile terrorist attacks on state, commercial, and infrastructure targets, as well as on political campaigns ahead of the 2023 general elections.

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