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Nigeria’s insecurity crisis is one of weak statehood
The country’s multiple security challenges are more complicated than the swirling flawed narratives of “Christian genocide.”
A shelter for displaced people in northwest Nigeria. Temilade Adelaja/File Photo/Reuters.