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April 1, 2015

Can a Muslim president defeat Boko Haram? Nigerians are betting on it

Supporters of presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) party celebrate in Kano on Tuesday (March 31, 2015). Three decades after seizing power in a military coup, Buhari became the first Nigerian to oust a president through the ballot box, putting him in charge of Africa’s biggest economy and one of its most turbulent democracies.

A northern Nigeria Muslim leader who promised to pursue a nonreligious agenda as president will now have to deal with an Islamic terrorist insurgency that has wreaked chaos in the country’s north.

Published in International