Ambassador John Campbell

Former US Ambassador to Nigeria and Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations

Ambassador John Campbell appears in the following:

Protests and Violence Paralyze Nigeria

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

An estimated 10,000 people participated in the first day of an indefinite strike against the government on Monday. These protests were motivated by alleged corruption and the elimination of a subsidy that has sent fuel prices skyrocketing in Nigeria. Meanwhile, terrorist attacks by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, who most recently claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day church bombing that killed 37 people and wounded 57, have reached a fever pitch.

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Radical Islamic Group Launches Deadly Attacks in Nigeria

Monday, November 07, 2011

It was a deadly weekend in Nigeria. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram staged a series of attacks that the Nigerian Red Cross says has left more than 100 dead in the northeastern part of the country. The terrorist attacks included shootings and suicide bombings, showing the increasing sophistication of a group which, by some counts, has killed as many as 330 people this year alone. On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria warned that luxury hotels in Abuja might be targets of further attacks.

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