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I would be more interested about terrorists organization like Al-Shabaab that at least control many towns.

Does Boko Haram and ISWAP even control a single town or they just control a few villages in Lake Chad and in the Sambisa forest?

Also reading the report they seem quite clueless.

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Doesn't Boko Haram control basically all of northern Nigeria? Yes, it's incredibly rural (even deserted) but it's still half a country.

Not at all, even in the Borno state where Boko Haram and ISWAP are present, towns are controlled by the government, I don't think there is a single town that is controlled by Boko Haram/ISWAP right now.

Hardly. Northern Nigeria is majority Muslim. Most Muslims are not under Boko Haram control.

I believe this map shows the maximum area they controlled - and it was over a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wilayat_al_Sudan_al_Gharb...

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