If the gravity of a conflict can be measured by the length of the guns employed, it is worth noting that soldiers at checkpoints in Nigeria's north have started fixing bayonets to their barrels. More than 1,000 people have died in terror attacks there this year, an increase of more than 50% on 2011 In response the government has deployed a heavily armed security force on the streets of Africa's most populous nation to fight the perpetrators, a Muslim extremist group called Boko Haram ("Western education is sacrilegious"). It strives, among other things, for better governance and strict adherence to Islam.
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