New fears for a ‘failed state of critical geopolitical concern’
Nov 05, 2021
3 minutes
By Peter Beaumont
A series of security, political and economic crises has left Nigeria facing its worst instability since the end of the Biafran war in 1970. With experts warning that large parts of the country are, in effect, becoming ungovernable, fears that the conflicts in Africa’s most populous state were bleeding over its borders were underlined last month by claims that armed Igbo secessionists in the south-east were now allies with militants fighting for an independent state in the anglophone region of neighbouring Cameroon.
The mounting
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