The pledge of allegiance offered to Islamic State (Isis) by the
Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram over the weekend, is a
superficially impressive propaganda coup for the Syria-based Islamist
extremist organisation, which has been collecting affiliates around the
Muslim world like normal people collect stamps.
But the new alliance, unilaterally proclaimed at the weekend by Boko
Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, is unlikely to amount to much in terms
of immediate collaboration on joint operations. It may, in fact, be more
of a cry for help, given a recent string of defeats sustained by Boko
Haram. Since January’s gruesome and well-publicised massacre in Baga, on
the border with Chad, when it butchered hundreds of civilians, Boko
Haram has faced a concerted push-back from Nigeria’s military and a
nascent multinational force combining troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad,
Cameroon and Benin.
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