| President Goodluck Jonathan warned at an ECOWAS summit on Thursday of the security crisis in the Sahel, which has led to a rise in the number of weapons flowing through the Sahel.
The North African desert area has faced intensified threats from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) following the conflict in Libya, which caused a surge in arms proliferation, the UN Security Council has said. Some have warned that instability in the Sahel is also linked to the rise in attacks in northern Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists who have killed more than 200 people already this year. “We are… witnessing a lot of crisis in some parts of the sub region,” Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan said at the start of the Economic Community of west African States summit in Abuja. Become an Oyibos OnLine fan on Facebook |
Feb172012