The security situation in Nigeria continues to deteriorate, including in areas that were until recently relatively free of unrest. The army is under increasing pressure from terrorist groups on the northern borders, while also trying to clamp down on growing social and intercommunal violence in several states in the Middle Belt.
Attacks by Boko Haram and its dissident branch, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), had long been confined to their historical front in Borno State in the north-east
