Four African countries have been rocked by Islamist insurgency in recent years—two by Boko Haram, one by Al-Shabab and the other by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) jihadists. Their modus operandi is the same: Kidnappings, mass beheadings and bombings to exert maximum pain to victims.
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, is the heart of Boko Haram insurgency. In 2014, they kidnapped 276 girls, a big number of them Christians, from a government girls secondary school in Chibok . Close to 100 are still missing. Army barracks are not spared.
