The failure of Nigeria’s Muslim President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle the Islamist fanatics of Boko Haram has resulted in an estimated 50,000 children facing death by starvation, according to Western aid officials.

A total of 500,000 people have been made homeless during Nigeria’s bitter seven-year conflict with Boko Haram, and aid workers now fear the vast majority of them are in urgent need of food, shelter and medical care.

But hopes that Mr Buhari would intensify the military effort to destroy Boko Haram, an Islamist group with close links to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Syria (ISIS), are fading, following the Nigerian leader’s decision to promote his Muslim allies to key government appointments at the expense of his Christian political opponents.

Last month Stratfor, which provides business with geopolitical analysis, reported there was growing frustration in northern Nigeria over the blatant favouritism the president is displaying towards his Muslim allies.

According to Stratfor, 77 of the 122 appointments Mr Buhari has made since his accession to power in May last year have gone to northerners, increasing ethnic tensions with the predominantly Christian south of the country.

Western officials say Mr Buhari’s obsession with settling scores with his political opponents has had a negative impact on Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram, and left the government unable to cope with the mounting humanitarian disaster in the north of the country.

The French charity Doctors Without Borders is now warning that a total of 244,000 children have been left homeless and hungry as a result of the fighting, and that one in five of them will die in the coming weeks unless urgent aid is provided. A spokesman for the children’s charity, Unicef, commented: “Some 134 children on average will die every day from causes linked to acute malnutrition.”

Aid officials believe that much of the blame for this disastrous state of affairs lies with the government of Mr Buhari, a former military dictator, who, rather than concentrating his efforts on Boko Haram, has instead mounted a campaign of intimidation against his Christian opponents in the south of the country.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, rather than concentrating his efforts on Boko Haram, has instead mounted a campaign of intimidation against his Christian opponents in the south of the country. Pictured above, Buhari (left) meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on November 23, 2015, in Iran. (Image source: khamenei.ir)

A senior Nigerian security officer recently confided to Western diplomats that so many of Mr Buhari’s political opponents had been rounded up that Nigeria’s prison system could no longer cope.

And Mr Buhari’s decision to target supporters of the country’s former Christian president, Goodluck Jonathan, in the south of the country, recently prompted criticism from British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who said, “It’s obviously a major concern.”

Mr Buhari’s tactics have also succeeded in reviving tensions with Nigeria’s Biafran community in the south of the country, who were involved in a brutal civil war for independence in the 1960s.

In May, the Nigerian military killed at least 15 people at a peaceful Biafran protest.

“One of the reasons we have this humanitarian crisis in northern Nigeria is that Mr Buhari is diverting vital resources away from the campaign to pursue his own political agenda,” explained a senior Western official. “The Nigerian government, which is receiving significant amounts of foreign aid, needs to understand that its main priority is to deal with Boko Haram, and also to make sure that Nigeria does not suffer the worst humanitarian disaster in its history.”

Mr Coughlin is Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor of London’s Daily Telegraph.

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Kuruyu wa mbere mu nteko nshinga mategeko y’uRwanda,mu murwa mukuru wa Kigali,habaye umuhango wo kurahiza abagize inama y’Abaministiri aho uwo muhango wayobowe n’umukuru w’igihugu Mr.Paul kagame akaba anahagarariye ibikorwa by’iterabwoba mukarere k’ibiyaga bigari.

Umukuru w’iguhugu yumvikanye ashishikariza abanyarwanda hamwe n’ikipe nshya agiye gukorana nayo,ayisaba ko bakwiye gufatikaniliza hamwe kubunga bunga ubuzima bw’abanyarwanda kubera impanuka zo mu muhanda zikomeje kubamaraho abanyarwanda!.

Ikibazo nyamukuru abanyarwanda bakomeje kwibaza,mbese abanyarwanda bamaze kwicwa n’ubutegetsi bwa fpr na kagame,bo,nabanyamahanga?cyangwa umunyarwanda wishwe n’impanuka niwe uba apfuye naho abandi baba basinziliye?.

Col.Karegeya Patrick nta bwo yarumunyarwanda?politiki y’ikinyoma izageza ryari?biragaragara  ko,umukuru w’igihugu ageza aho abura icyo abwira abanyarwanda kubera guhemuka bikabije,’but the time will tell’ ibi yabivugiye mu nteko mu gihe abanyarwanda bakomeje kuburirwa irengero abandi bicwa amanywa n’ijoro.

Leta imaze kubona yuko bikabije nibwo yashyize igihuha hanze ko,abaturage bagera kubihumbi 30.000 bamaze kwimuka berekera mutundi duce twigihugu,nyamara ntibishoboka ko,abantu bakwimuka batavuye mu gihugu ngo bitangazwe ari nta kibazo cy’inzara mu gihugu cyangwa umutekano mucye urangwa aho abo baturage baba batuye.

Muri uyu muhango wari uyobowe na Perezida wa Repubulika Paul Kagame yasabye abayobozi bose kurwanya ikibazo cy’icuruzwa ry’abana cyane b’abakobwa aho yavuze ko ibi bikwiye gucika.

Perezida Kagame akaba yasabye abanyarwanda bose muri rusange kurwanya ibi bikorwa by’icuruzwa ry’abana.

Yongeye kugaruka kandi ku kibazo cy’impanuka zikomeje guhitana abantu aho yavuze ko hakwiye kurwanywa ibikorwa by’impanuka zikomeje guhitana abantu.

Aha Perezida Kagame yagize ati:” Dukwiye kubitekerezaho yaba abashinzwe kubahiriza amategeko kimwe n’abashinzwe kuyashyira mu bikorwa. Ubuzima bw’umuntu umwe bufite agaciro kanini cyane, iyo babaye mirongo biba bikabije, dukwiye kubihagarika.”

Umukuru w’igihugu niba afitiye impuhwe abana bato,ngaho nahindure itegeko yemeje mu nteko mu mwaka wa 2012 kuwa 17^th gicurasi riha uburenganzira abategarugori ndetse nabakobwa gukuramo inda baba badashaka kubyara.Byaba Atari ibyo,ibyo avuga byaba ar’ukwirebera mu ndererwamo kandi ari nikinyoma cyambaye ubusa.

Mbese abavutse nibo bafite uburenganzira gusa?nta tegeko rirengera abana bakiri mu nda zababyeyi babo,ikindi ni uko impamanuka nyinshi zikorwa umukuru w’iguhugu abifitemo uruhare,igihe cyose yemeye kwinjira mu idini rya satani akemera kubyarwa muri batisimu na pastor Rick WARREN ntibazabura gutanga ibitambo by’Abanyarwanda babatangaho ibitambo binyuze mu mpanuka.

Agerageze kubeshya abashinwa naho abanyarwanda basobanukiwe neza byimazeyo ko,umukuru ariwe watanzeho abanyarwanda ibitambo ndetse nabacongomani kugirango akomeze kuramba kubutegetsi.

Tumwibutse yuko na mugenzi we Mobutu SSeseko Wazabanga satani yari yaramubwiye ko atazigera ava kubutegetsi,ariko igitangaje yakuweho na perezida Paul Kagame umaze guhinduka satani musa,abakeneyekureba satani ntibazigere bajya ikuzimu,bazafate ifoto y’umukuru w’igihugu cy’Urwanda ayirebe uko niko satani asa!.

Obama’s first major speech after his election in 2008 was to the Muslim world in Cairo. His speech did not deal with the harsh realities of Islam and its impact on world peace. No Muslim authority shook Obama’s hand promising change, a new relationship with the West based on mutual respect, or a reflection on what went wrong on 9/11, even if they were not directly responsible for it. No Arab leader publicly announced an end to the Islamic jihadist and anti-Western hate education and Arab media propaganda. Instead, the Muslim world got an apology from Obama.

After Obama left Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood was empowered, and military rulers weakened and brought down one after another. By Western standards, military rule is shunned as an oppressive form of government, but in the Islamic world it is the only buffer of protection from the tyranny of total sharia that must be enforced by Islamic theocracies, such as those of Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Muslim Brotherhood and then ISIS quickly filled the vacuum and the Muslim world is now on fire.

Obama’s first major presidential speech, on June 4, 2009, was to the Muslim world in Cairo. His speech did not deal with the harsh realities of Islam and its impact on world peace. No Muslim authority shook Obama’s hand promising change, a new relationship with the West based on mutual respect, or a reflection on what went wrong on 9/11. (Image source: White House)

A huge storm of Islamic darkness, spilling over and sweeping across our planet, headed towards the West. Let us never allow our freedoms, built by generations of Americans, be lost to fear and terror. It is time for the West to unite and send a firm message to the Muslim World — a message that should have been sent by Obama back in 2009.

With the election of President-elect Donald J. Trump, citizens of the West have renewed their hope to make America again the leader of the free world and human rights for all, as should be. Trump hopefully will rally leaders of the free world to give a firm message to the Muslim world:

The days of sacrificing the safety and security of citizens of the West for the sake of multiculturalism, are over. In order for multiculturalism to work, it must be a Two-Way Street between peoples that share common values of respect of each other’s culture. Unfortunately, the West did not get that from Islam. America, Europe and Australia have been the safe haven of people from all over the world — different nationalities, religions and races. We love the Muslim people as we love all people but our love to people of the world should never supersede our number one duty, which is to protect of our citizens, our freedoms, our way of life, and yes, our Biblical-based, Judeo-Christian values.

Today the Middle East is on fire, overrun and ravaged by terrorists and extremists who have no respect for their own governments or law and order. Groups such as ISIS and others brought back ancient barbarity that humanity had mistakenly thought it had transcended. We keep hearing that this has nothing to do with Islam and that Islamic terrorists are just a small number of misguided Muslims who misinterpret true peaceful Islam.

But now it is our turn to tell you what is on our mind: It really does not matter what is true Islam and what is not. When a terrorist plows through a crowd with a truck aiming to kill, the last thing anyone cares to hear is whether “the driver was a true Muslim or not”. That is something the Muslim world needs to deal with internally; it does not serve us in the West to try to evaluate what is “true Islam” and what is not.

Middle Eastern governments-run schools still teach hate propaganda against the West, Jews and Christians. They still teach their children lies such as that Yasser Arafat died from poisoning by Jews. They still teach in their public schools that jihad is a holy war against non-Muslims; that killing apostates and honor killing of girls is a duty under Islamic law and those who do it will not be prosecuted, but will be rewarded with virgins by Allah. Muslim Imams spread their hatred and incitement right under the noses of the so-called moderate Muslim leaders, on your government-run television screens. Your religious leaders, whose salaries are paid by Islamic governments, stand before your media cameras and call on Muslims to stab, slam trucks, kill, rape and humiliate the kafir [non-Muslim], Jews, Christians and Pagans.

We have done enough appeasing and looking the other way when it comes to the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit: that Islamic governments and terror groups are two peas in a pod, working together for the same goal: enforcing Allah’s law, sharia, on the world. It is no secret that a Muslim head of state must rule by sharia and must conduct jihad against non-Muslims. Sharia law commands Muslim citizens to remove, by rebellion or assassination, any Muslim leader who does not abide by sharia and support jihadists. The world understands the plight of Islamic leaders who must fulfill their sharia obligation before their Islamists, otherwise they are “toast.” Solving this problem is not the responsibility of the West, but it is a major problem that the Muslim world must address in the open and deal with.

While Muslim people and governments develop the courage openly to settle their issues over their jihad duty, the unholy alliance game played by Islamic governments and terror groups must be exposed for what it is, and emphatically rejected. The West cannot afford to participate in such a dishonest game anymore.

As of today, the West must hold Islamic governments responsible for jihadist actions of their own terrorist citizens. Nothing happens in Muslim countries without the knowledge of their governments. If a Muslim government has no control of its citizens, it should be considered a rogue nation. Islamic nations that continue to breed terrorists in their media, schools and mosques and then act innocent of the crime must be held accountable. Muslims themselves have no tolerance for one Western cartoonist who offended them with a cartoon of Muhammad. Instead of saying that this cartoonist does not represent all Western nations, the Muslim public rioted, burned and killed several Westerners and their embassies in retaliation for the actions of one, over a cartoon. That is from the same nations that flooded the world with terrorists that use airplanes, guns, explosives, knives and even trucks to kill non-Muslims. Muslims need to live by the saying “If your house is of glass, do not throw rocks at others.”

Any Western nation that does not protect its own citizens first and foremost should be a pariah among civilized nations. Bringing in unvetted refugees from Syria and Iraq is not an act of compassion, but gross negligence. Western governments have failed their citizens for too long in that respect and that will end today.

It would be insane for Western governments not to use extraordinary measures for self-preservation. The doors of immigration to Muslim citizens from nations overrun by terror will be closed. After all, why should cultures that loathe the West seek to live in the West? As President-elect Trump said, why should America — or any country — not allow in only immigrants who love us and who respect our laws and way of life?

Absorbing refugees from terror run Syria is not only bad for the West, but also for Syria. If we take the moderate Muslims out of Syria, then who will be left to fight ISIS and rebuild the country?

Our doors will be reopened to citizens from Islamic nations only when the war on Islamic terrorism is won and when Islamic governments prove to the world that they have fundamentally changed, that they have ended once and for all their obsessive jihadist propaganda and hate education prevalent in the Muslim world. Until then, all kinds of visas from such troubled areas will be suspended, except for the few who would be properly vetted. Such actions will surely expedite the reformation of Islam and Islamic education in Muslim nations who are desperate to give us their excess unhappy population.

We are looking forward to the day when moderate Muslims will be able to take control of their governments, their educational systems, and their law and order, so the Western world could resume mutual constructive relations based on friendship and respect. The whole world is looking forward to that day and praying for a peaceful Middle East. The ball is now in the Muslim world’s court.

It seems like Iran is looking to provoke more countries than just the US. It now also sets its sights on the Saudis.

Recently, irate Iranians stormed and destroyed the Saudi embassy in Tehran after a high-profile Shiite leader was executed in Saudi Arabia.

This led to a war of words in which Iran threatened the Saudis. Pakistan then loyally professed allegiance to its Saudi friends by threatening Iran.

In the next chapter of this epic saga, Iran released an animated video, simulating attacks intended to cripple the Saudis on all sides.

If Iran’s intentions are on a similar level to its film-making, there is great cause for concern. Watch now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l7ODVK7l8

Netanyahu addressed American Jewry in a webcast, explaining why he believes it imperative to rally against the Iran nuclear deal, which he sees as an existential threat to Israel and the world.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing his campaign to persuade the public to reject the accord signed between the Islamic Republic and six world powers regarding its nuclear program. The latest stage in this battle was a live webcast on Tuesday aimed at Americans Jews, arranged by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

During the session, which was attended by more than 10,000 people who fielded roughly 2,000 questions on the issue, Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s stance that the deal endangers the safety of Israel and the world, calling it a “bad deal” that enables Tehran to develop a nuclear bomb.

“The nuclear deal with Iran doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb. It actually paves Iran’s path to the bomb,” Netanyahu declared.” Iran can get to the bomb by keeping the deal or Iran could get to the bomb by violating the deal.”

Netanyahu, one of the fiercest critics of the nuclear accord, also disputed Obama’s claim that opponents of the diplomatic deal favor war. He called that claim “utterly false,” stating, “I oppose this deal because I want to prevent war, and this deal will bring war.”

Netanyahu outlined “fatal flaws” in the deal in an effort to dispel “some of the misinformation” and “disinformation” about Israel’s position.

“The deal that was supposed to end nuclear proliferation will actually trigger nuclear proliferation,” he insisted. “It will trigger an arms race, a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, the most volatile part of the planet. That’s a real nightmare.”

“But the deal’s dangers don’t end there,” he warned. “The deal gives Iran also a massive infusion of cash and Iran will use this cash to fund its aggression in the region and its terrorism around the world. As a result of this deal, there’ll be more terrorism. There will be more attacks. And more people will die.”

Even if Iran invests only 10 percent of the money for terrorism, “that’s 10 percent of nearly half a trillion dollars that Iran is expected to receive over the next 10 to 15 years,” the Israeli leader affirmed. “That’s a staggering amount of money.”

“Israelis are going to be the ones who pay the highest price if there’s war and if Iran gets the bomb,” he continued.

In Israel, opposition to the deal is not a partisan issue, the premier said. “Isaac Herzog, the Leader of the Labor Opposition, the man who ran against me in this year’s election and who works every day in the Knesset to bring down my government, Herzog has said that there is no daylight between us when it comes to the deal with Iran.”

“This isn’t about me. And it’s not about President Obama,” he said, stressing that the issue is not personal. “It’s about the deal.”

“Don’t let the deal’s supporters quash a real debate,” Netanyahu asserted. “The issue here is too important. Don’t let them take your voice away at this critical moment in history. What we do now will affect our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren – in Israel, in America, everywhere. This is a time to stand up and be counted. Oppose this dangerous deal.”

Earlier this week, Obama held a conference call organized by liberal, non-mainstream American Jewish organizations, offering talking points to defend the deal and urging them to garner support through financial donations and advocacy. There was no opportunity for questions.

Hours after Netanyahu’s address, Obama held a meeting with Jewish leaders at the White House in an attempt to persuade them to adopt the opposite position championed by Netanyahu.

By: Max Gelber, United with Israel

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