AFP: Interview with Yan St-Pierre “Security fears for Boko Haram displaced after Nigeria bombings”

February 12, 2016

Phil Hazlewood, journalist with AFP, asked Yan St-Pierre, whether refugee camps are more vulnerable to terror attacks. The article appeared as “Security fears for Boko Haram displaced after bombings” in several media outlets.

Yan St-Pierre, of the Modern Security Consulting Group, said such attacks had become a growing trend since November last year. “These were mostly assaults but by bombing a camp, they can instill more terror and complicate matters even more for the refugees and the government,” he told AFP.

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St-Pierre said “issues of prestige, power and sovereignty” were holding up the deployment: “Who is allowed to do what and when? Who gets to claim credit for the success? “And more importantly, just how deep into Nigerian territory are MNJTF troops allowed to go?” Until a common strategy and operational structure was developed, the force remained “a joint operation on paper only”, he added.

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