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Join us on Feb. 29 for a progress report on Nigera nine months into President Buhari's administration.
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Examining the current state of Nigeria
Monday, February 29, 2016, 10:00 — 11:30 am
The Brookings Institution, Saul/Zilkha Room, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036
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On February 29, the Africa Security Initiative at Brookings will hold a discussion on Nigeria, nine months after the inauguration
of President Muhammadu Buhari, the country’s first president to take office in a peaceful transition of power from one party to another. President Buhari, who previously ruled Nigeria in the mid-1980s after a military coup, inherits a country facing burgeoning
population, low oil prices for its top export, and the Boko Haram extremist insurgency in the northeast. Buhari also inherited other problems such as unrest in the country’s delta and southeast regions, and a culture of corruption and human rights abuse and
impunity throughout much of the country’s armed forces and police.
Less than a year into his presidency, Buhari has made progress in reforming the military, sacking some military leaders and injecting a bit more energy into the counter-Boko Haram campaign. But has he chosen the right priorities for Nigeria and fundamentally
headed in the right direction, and what has been the impact on civilians, particularly in the northeastern part of the country? What additional role, if any, could the United States and the broader international community play to support additional reform?
Join us as we convene a panel to discuss these subjects. The panel, made up of independent experts with deep knowledge ranging from human rights to economics and finance to broader political and security sector reform, will include EJ Hogendoorn of the International
Crisis Group, Mausi Segun of Human Rights Watch, and Amadou Sy from The Brookings Institution. Senior Fellow Michael O’Hanlon, who directs the Africa Security Initiative at Brookings, will moderate the discussion.
Following the panel, the speakers will take questions from the audience.
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Moderator
Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Center for 21st Century Security
and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution
Panel
EJ Hogendoorn, Africa Deputy Program Director, International Crisis Group
Mausi Segun, Nigeria Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Amadou Sy, Senior Fellow and Director, Africa Growth Initiative, The Brookings Institution
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