Nigeria: Time to Consider Talks With Boko Haram?

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Nigeria: Time to Consider Talks With Boko Haram?

Analysis - Military interventions have failed to end a violent insurgency and humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin. The recent brutal murder of over 100 rice farmers by extremists in Nigeria's Borno State is one of the region's deadliest attacks in years, an indication that security responses aren't working.

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