Boko Haram Being Sponsored From Outside Africa-Ethiopian PM

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Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia has stated that the fierce Nigerian Islamist sect, Boko Haram as well as the Al-Shabab operating in East Africa, get their funding from outside Africa.

Speaking during a joint conference with Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, the PM further stated that the terrorists resorted to suicide bombing because the government was winning the fight against insurgency.

“Leaders whose countries have been worse hit should cooperate to fight insurgency because for the past 10 years, the East African region has been fighting terrorism, but we need more efforts in order to completely flush out terrorism from Africa.

“You know terrorism is not African agenda only. There have been terror attacks in Boston, United States and many parts of the globe. So, it is not something that is new to Nigeria, Ethiopia and other African countries. “It is a global phenomenon and you see that there was terror attack in Iraq recently and it is expanding. We have to see it as a global phenomenon that has to be tackled together in unison.

“It should not be left to this or that region or this or that country. We have to bear in mind the genesis of this terrorism,” he explained.

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