The Islamist terror group’s recent attacks in
Nigeria are notable for the expensive military hardware in display.
Terrence McCoy reports on the sources of this money, from wealthy Middle
Eastern backers to the black market
If there was an exact moment that the international community
understood the breadth of Boko Haram’s evil, it came last month, when
the group’s leader grinned and announced that he would sell more than
200 kidnapped schoolgirls in his “market of selling human beings”.