VOA: Multinational Force Fighting Boko Haram Gets Mixed Results – Interview with Yan St-Pierre

July 15th, 2016

Chris Stein, journalist with VOA News, asked Yan St-Pierre why the “Multinational Force Fighting Boko Haram Gets Mixed Results“:

“We’re really talking about a regional coalition [where] everybody’s on his own and collaborating when there’s a need to and basically when they’re forced to,” said Yan St-Pierre, CEO of the Berlin-based security firm MOSECON. He said regional rivalries, internal political turmoil and language differences keep the five countries involved from effectively collaborating. “It works in spurts, and it works in little bursts, but it’s not this consistently working, effective coalition,” St-Pierre said.

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