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Boko Haram Actually Kills More People In Terror Attacks Than ISIS
Let's not forget the horrific terror group taking lives in northern Nigeria.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/boko-haram-isis_564cd890e4b00b7997f8c15d
This week, the world’s deadliest terror group wrought extraordinary carnage on crowds of people going about their daily lives.
The fruit and vegetable market in the northern Nigerian city of Yola was packed with customers buying food for dinner when a suicide bomber struck on Tuesday evening, killing at least 34 people. "The ground near my shop was covered with dead bodies," Alhaji Ahmed told Reuters.
Then on Wednesday, as afternoon prayers approached, two young women strapped with explosives detonated at a busy mobile phone market in the nearby city of Kano. At least 15 people were killed in the twin blasts, according to The Associated Press.
Both bombings are widely believed to be the work of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, which rarely claims responsibility for specific attacks but has waged a bloody six-year insurgency in the region.
A new report this week found Boko Haram has overtaken the so-called Islamic State as the “most deadly terror group in the world.”
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Africa has deposits of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) that are becoming an increasingly important commodity:
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2015/02/10/guest-post-africas-role-in-addressing-chinas-dominance-of-rare-earths/
From as early as 2010, Africa has been hailed as the potential answer to the problem of China’s dominance of the rare earths market. Australia and Canada possess some rare earth deposits but it is thought that Africa has the most potential, with more than half of the world’s carbonatites (the rock formations that yield rare earths.) Indeed, in the past South Africa was probably the world’s largest supplier of rare earths. Today, at least two projects in the country, Steenkampskraal and Zandkopsdrift, have been re-opened and should re-commence production soon.
Other countries in Africa have the potential to produce even more rare earths. The Nuguala project in Tanzania has been called the largest, highest grade rare earth undeveloped project outside China. Wigu Hill is another rare earth project in Tanzania, owned by Montero Mining & Exploration. Bordering Malawi also has significant potential as do Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Namibia.
Other countries in Africa have the potential to produce even more rare earths. The Nuguala project in Tanzania has been called the largest, highest grade rare earth undeveloped project outside China. Wigu Hill is another rare earth project in Tanzania, owned by Montero Mining & Exploration. Bordering Malawi also has significant potential as do Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Namibia.
That would probably explain this:
http://www.thenation.com/article/us-militarys-pivot-africa/
With the war in Iraq over and the conflict in Afghanistan winding down, the US military is deploying its forces far beyond declared combat zones. In recent years, for example, Washington has very publicly proclaimed a “pivot to Asia,” a “rebalancing” of its military resources eastward, without actually carrying out wholesale policy changes. Elsewhere, however, from the Middle East to South America, the Pentagon is increasingly engaged in shadowy operations whose details emerge piecemeal and are rarely examined in a comprehensive way. Nowhere is this truer than in Africa. To the media and the American people, officials insist the US military is engaged in small-scale, innocuous operations there. Out of public earshot, officers running America’s secret wars say: “Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today.”
The proof is in the details—a seemingly ceaseless string of projects, operations, and engagements. Each mission, as AFRICOM insists, may be relatively limited and each footprint might be “small” on its own, but taken as a whole, US military operations are sweeping and expansive. Evidence of an American pivot to Africa is almost everywhere on the continent. Few, however, have paid much notice.
The proof is in the details—a seemingly ceaseless string of projects, operations, and engagements. Each mission, as AFRICOM insists, may be relatively limited and each footprint might be “small” on its own, but taken as a whole, US military operations are sweeping and expansive. Evidence of an American pivot to Africa is almost everywhere on the continent. Few, however, have paid much notice.
I learned that today
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of comparing Boko Haram's savagery to ISIS' 
