Final paper: a reminder

Hey, I want to make sure that you are working on your final papers.
The deadline is August 1st (Saturday).









Incidentally, if you have missed out on the news because of the paper and assignments you are working on, big time clashes broke out in Nigeria.

Nigerian security forces chased fleeing members of Boko Haram a day after the leader of the Islamist sect was killed amid fighting in which at least 600 people died.

“There are still isolated incidents here and there” in Maiduguri, capital of the northeastern state of Borno, said Emmanuel Ojukwu, the national police spokesman.

Fighting erupted in northeastern Nigeria on July 26, when Islamists attacked police stations in the state of Bauchi. The clashes spread to at least four other states. Boko Haram, a group that is sometimes referred to as the Nigerian Taliban and wants to impose sharia law across the entire country, was involved in the attacks, according to IHS Global Insight, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based research group.

The group’s 39-year-old leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed after being taken into custody yesterday, Agence France-Presse reported today, citing the League for Human Rights. Ojukwu confirmed Yusuf’s death.

Well, you know where Nigeria is (you do, right?), the importance of the Sahel and the north-south split, .... and thanks to the article in the Atlantic that you read, you even have a fairly good idea of the religious tensions in Nigeria.