Nigeria: How Nigeria, Neighbours Can Defeat Iswap Terror Group

Mass defections crippled JAS, one of two Boko Haram factions, but the same fate is unlikely to befall ISWAP.

The death of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in 2021 triggered unprecedented exits from one of the group’s two factions, Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (JAS).

He died when the other faction, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), invaded his Sambisa Forest fortress in Borno State, north-east Nigeria.

Rather than being taken alive, Shekau detonated a suicide vest, bringing…