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Who are the Lakurawa insurgent group threatening Nigeria?
November 11, 202411:16 AM ESTUpdated 2 days ago
ABUJA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Nigeria's military has said a new Islamist insurgent group from Niger and Mali, known as Lakurawa, was operating in the northwest and officials and residents said it killed 15 people last Friday in its most high profile attack to date.
Here is what we know about the group:

WHO ARE THE LAKURAWA?

The military said the previously unknown Lakurawa was linked to Islamic State and operated in the states of Kebbi and Sokoto.

The Lakurawa first emerged in northwest Nigeria in 2018, when the group started helping locals fight armed gangs known as bandits, local media reported.

But the relationship soon soured as residents began accusing Lakurawa of stealing their cattle and seeking to impose strict Islamic law. The group retreated to the border areas of Niger and Mali but would make some incursions into Nigeria.

Nigeria defence spokesperson Edward Buba said the group was not initially considered a threat.

He said Lakurawa increased its presence in Nigeria after the July 2023 military coup in Niger, which brought a stop to joint military patrols along the countries' borders.

WHAT THREAT DOES LAKURAWA POSE?

Nigeria is already fighting several armed groups, including Islamist militants Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province and several bandit gangs.

Another insurgency could further destabilise the region and suck an already stretched military into a long-drawn fight, security analysts said.

"The fact that (Lakurawa members) engage in preaching and impose harsh edicts on local communities indicates they are ambitious, potentially thinking big picture about eventually extending their territorial influence to Nigeria," said James Barnett, a research fellow at the Hudson Institute who has conducted fieldwork in the northwest.

HOW IS NIGERIA HANDLING THE THREAT?

The Nigerian military has resumed joint patrols with Niger and promised to take the offensive to Lakurawa.

The threat by the group was important enough for Nigeria's acting Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede to visit Sokoto to rally his troops.

Oluyede also appealed for support from residents to fight the insurgents.

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Reporting by Ope Adetayo, Editing by MacDonald Dzirutwe and Alex Richardson

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never heard of this guy before. :ehh:




1/11
@DavidHundeyin
Something I always s****** at is how the pro-Apartheid, pro-Colonialism people and their modern iterations have somehow managed to commandeer the "free market capitalist" identity, so that everyone opposed to them is a left wing commie.

Apartheid and colonialism were state-backed socialist interventions for white people. What the heck was "free market" about 9% of a country's population introducing laws (at gunpoint) to prevent 87% of the population from controlling factors of production or meaningfully participating in its economy?😄

What on earth was "pro-market capitalism" about using state fiat to corrall that 87% into "bantu reserves" strategically spaced apart to prevent them from aggregating resources and competing with the 9%? 😄 Isn't the primary hallmark of free market capitalism supposed to be freedom of competition?

Some people used state power to centrally plan an economy into the hands of a small minority, imported hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans to artificially repopulate the land stolen from the 87%, used regular massacres and terrorism to avoid paying the market price for one of the factors of production (labour), and ran the country's economy into the ground funding some of the world's most generous subsidies for the consumption of the 9%. Doesn't that sound very much like, I dunno, socialism?😅😅😅😅

30 years later, their modern-day proxies (still sitting on all the subsidy-funded largesse they accumulated) are calling themselves "free market capitalists"?😄😄😄

The people who insist on historical redress to create a fair playing field for actual competitive capitalism to take place for the first time are now the "socialists," "radical leftists," and "communists"?😄😄😄😄😄

Ain't that a bytch.

Anyway, as I keep saying, NARRATIVE IS EVERYTHING. Until Africa understands the central importance of NARRATIVE to everything in the world, people will continue getting away with their self-serving, shape-shifting nonsense.



2/11
@adeiteOs
@DavidHundeyin you a worth every penny your parents spent on your education. They must be very proud!



3/11
@iam_Shakiru
They have used subterfuge to keep the 87% in constant hypnotic state using religion and tribe. I wonder when the people will wake up from the comatose



4/11
@WiseRomeoo
The whole free market capitalism is a shady fiasco tbh, almost every single multinational company in the West today was raised under severe high tariff protectionism and those are for the legal onee.
The West during the cold war committed so many economic genocide, it's aches.



5/11
@rapid4real99
And imagine the so-called free market country increasing tariff on China EV because they claim Chinese govt is over subsidizing the sector?

The same thing they are doing in their country on EV



6/11
@ManOfWhispers
Okay, now I am convinced that they have your attention.

Just wondering what happened lately.



7/11
@Aaleeuu
"imperialism, the last stage of colonialism"Kwame Nkrumah



8/11
@BanditPampered
The @EFFSouthAfrica is right in every sense



9/11
@Lavendamafia
Thank you. Is it any surprise America is the only developed country without a welfare system. Not free education or free healthcare because, the majority of the population who are not of the desired European ancestry will benefit from it.



10/11
@OnyoiboO
@ohentpay ,your customer service is poor, transactions your peer platforms deliver in 15 to 30 minutes has taken you over 24 hours and the recipient has not received the funds. Cancel and refund the money to the account of origin your customer service says it's not possible.



11/11
@Josh_strategy
One thing is clear, the "privileges" enjoyed by the "communist" and "totalitarians" is alluring to the "free market" capitalists. You'll wonder why they keep paying millions of dollars for lobbying...




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1/7
@DavidHundeyin
It's been a really humbling 5 years for me. Back in 2019, I used to write these really scathing articles criticising Paul Kagame and everything he stood for because "democracy," "human rights," and "civil freedoms."

Well since then, I've ended up in exile away from my human-rights-acknowledging country with its "civil freedoms" and I've survived at least one attempt on my life on foreign soil by my "democratically elected" government's foreign intelligence agency. I've seen how the world really works. And it's not pretty at all.

Most importantly, I've seen how utterly pointless an electoral "democracy" is in a society where most people literally cannot tell their arse from their elbow. I never thought I'd end up here, but I now understand the arguments that Kagame's people used to make about "managed freedom" and "transitional phase." I actually get it, and I agree.

I recently put up a tweet referencing the Belt & Road Initiative - a topic that should be political bread and butter for any citizen of a Global South country who knows anything about anything. A Nigerian/African not knowing what the BRI is and how it affects them would be like an American in 1949 not knowing what the New Deal is and how it affected them.

Yet nearly half of the responses on the tweet were people not just saying that they didn't know what the BRI is, but asking me to tell them what it is - these people's minds are wired in such a way that it does not even occur to them that their first response to their ignorance should be to use their internet connections to find information, not merely to ask for and uncritically someone's version of things.

How can you run an electoral democracy with such an electorate? If people do not understand what the voting issues are or what power their vote actually holds, then what is the point of giving them a power they are not qualified to wield? You wouldn't put someone behind the wheel of a car without a drivers license, or allow a random person to purchase a firearm without some sort of permit. Why would you allow random unqualified people to decide the leadership - and ultimate direction - of 210 million human souls simply because they tumbled out of a vagina 18+ years ago?

The people have demonstrated that they are unable to make rational choices because they are ignorant and unwilling to assimilate information. Should the entire civilisation be condemned to never experience prosperity simply because its current generation is really, really bad at knowing which 'x' to mark on a ballot sheet?

I don't believe in this Westminster/DC democracy stuff anymore. I've seen too much, and I can't unsee what I have seen. The white people who brought it here brought it for the same reason they brought every other thing they ever brought - to ease and lubricate their exploitation and control. I say we leave it for them.

If the tradeoff for not having the freedom to insult my president on Twitter is that I get to experience an economically dignified existence in my country and my children never need to consider emigration as their primary economic option, I'll take it.

Compared to that, what fukking "freedom" does a poor man have?



2/7
@PureStanley1
Democracy does not exist in Africa as we know it, on this side of the world, the white brought democracy to us, whilst they force the candidates of their choice on us, in a bid for them to control and syphon our resources and further rendering our continent useIess.
Let's take Tinubu, Buhari and APC for example, the west claims they are all abt human right and defending democracy, but they keep on interfering in our local politics, by aiding APC to get to power, and applauding their "CIA asset" Tinubu when he rigged himself to power.

Maturing is realising that there is absolutely nothing democratic and like democracy in Africa. We all have been brainwashed into believing that the White cares abt human right and would defend it, but in an actual sense, they are hypocrítes that would go to any length to destabilise the country that perceive as a threat, like they did to Nigeria, Libya, Kenya, Congo and so on.



3/7
@Singula_Observa
Solid point. However, while we practice western style democracy, there's evidence that democracy isn't entirely new to Africa. In ancient south eastern 9ja they had a decentralized system of governance that's very much comparable to democracy, arguably more efficient in some ways



4/7
@DebbySimon69
Exactly 👌



5/7
@Netcatsolutions
Correct talk. We must rise up against their stooges and assets they impose on us to impoverish us as a people.



6/7
@OBDLYNCHER
When your candidate is not being voted for no democracy you and hundeyin dey ment ogun kpai u



7/7
@ShadrachAu18227
Solid point
We are in the bondages of the white men




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Executive Summary: Ukraine is alleged to be providing military equipment and training to the Tuareg separatist coalition CSP-DPA in its armed struggle against Russian-backed Malian government forces. This support is framed as a strategic move from Ukraine to counter Russian influence in Africa...
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BaggerofTea said:
Why do certain governments in Africa insist on being some sort of playground for western experimentation
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Because in reality, those governments dont give a damn about their own people. Only securing power and wealth for themselves and whatever small group of corrupt supporters that help keep their regime afloat.

People always point to “imperialism” but thats not whats really going on here. A lot of the leadership is just as complicit in being short sighted and selling out their country voluntarily.
 
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Because in reality, those governments dont give a damn about their own people. Only securing power and wealth for themselves and whatever small group of corrupt supporters that help keep their regime afloat.

People always point to “imperialism” but thats not whats really going on here. A lot of the leadership is just as complicit in being short sighted and selling out their country voluntarily.
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I’m tired of hearing the imperialism argument because at this point in the history of most of these African countries, you have coup leaders, overthrowing, other coup leaders, and then blaming imperialism for why they overthrow the previous leader.
 
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