Regional Violence Threatens Nigeria’s Security

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Widespread insecurity has rocked Nigeria, with armed attacks and kidnappings in the country's northwest states, an Islamist insurgency in the northeast and violent sectarian and herder-farmer clashes in the central region. For a look into how these conflicts originated and what successive Nigerian government have done to stem the violence, VOA’s Esther Githui-Ewart spoke to Sunday Dare, the former Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports.