Vocab
Suicide bomber
a person who carries and detonates explosives on their body or in a vehicle, intentionally killing themselves as a prerequisite for the success of an attack aimed at killing or injuring others.
Lake Chad Basin
Has suffered major military losses
Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)
a regional military alliance fighting the Boko Haram insurgency
Boko Haram has long engaged in
mass abduction of schoolgirls
John Campbell
a senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria
Recruitment
battlefields across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad
Where Boko Haram continues to recruit children
VOA
Voice of america. The crew telling the story
In July, the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict presented a report to the U.N. Security Council in which it described
gruesome violations against children
Why should regional governments should increase their efforts
To create better lives for children
Displacement (displaced)
Someone is taken out of their home.
Nigeria
Where the main problem is taking place
Human Rights Watch
defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice.
the expansion of the group's activities across
the Lake Chad Basin region
Why are some female suicide bombers getting killed by security services
They are trying to avenge their loved ones
militants
A militant is a person engaged in warfare or combat.
The governments in the area
regional governments
The Nigerian military
The military forces of Nigeria
Boko Haram was responsible for the recruitment and use of
1,385 children
Boko Haram has been using children between the ages of
5 and 8
armed groups
groups in active conflict with guns
Chibok, in Lagos
Where the protest was
Boko Haram
a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria
The kidnappings gained international attention when
many world leaders campaigned for the release of the schoolgirls
the militant group has also relied on
older children whose families have been killed during the conflict.