“Until now, the U.S. has tried to portray the problem with Boko Haram as a domestic Nigerian issue,” said Katharine Gorka with the Westminster Institute, one of several nonprofit groups working to find solutions to the conflict in Nigeria. “There’s growing evidence that it’s international in scope. They have international ties and international ambitions.” The State Department has refused to name Boko Haram—which means “Western education is sinful”—a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), despite calls from advocacy groups and lawmakers to do so.
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