Threat Level Rising: How African Terrorist Groups Inspired by al-Qaeda Are Gaining Strength

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Threat Level Rising: How African Terrorist Groups Inspired by al-Qaeda Are Gaining Strength

The moment Nigeria’s Islamists graduated from local to international threat can be dated almost precisely, to just before 11 a.m. on Aug. 26. Mohammed Abul Barra, 27, a car mechanic and father of one from Maiduguri in Nigeria’s northeast, had just turned into the diplomatic enclave in Nigeria’s hot, dusty capital, Abuja. As he passed […]