Nigerian Governor Demands 100,000 Troops to Quell Insurgency
- Islamist group has increased attacks in recent months
- Overstretched military is said to lack manpower and equipment
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Nigeria must recruit 100,000 additional soldiers to end the long-running insurgency by the Islamist Boko Haram group, the governor of a state at the epicenter of the violence said.
The militant group has inflicted “horrific and simultaneous attacks” in Borno state since March 2019, Governor Babagana Zulum said in a statement on Wednesday. “The military don’t have the manpower, they don’t have the equipment.”