On 17 October, the Nigerian government unilaterally declared that it had entered into a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram Islamists. In the same communique, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, further asserted that the agreement would also see the release of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist extremist sect 
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The Boko Haram Ceasefire and the Chadian Gambit
By: Ryan Cummings | Tuesday, November 18th, 2014Rethinking Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Chad as a Case Study
By: Yonmon Tchinsala | Monday, December 30th, 2013SSR Resource Centre Blog Contributor Yonmon Tchinsala uses Chad to demonstrate the pitfalls of  militarisation without an appropriate focus on promoting positive peace when managing state security forces.Â
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