Link to article:https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerian-army-says-islamic-state-west-africas-new-leader-killed-military-2021-10-28/
On Thursday October 28th the Nigerian Army had reported that they had killed the new leader of an Islamic state in west africa during a military operation. The new leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province was killed during one of the several land and air raids on suspected insurgent locations. He was killed just two weeks after the former leader was announced dead. During the land and air raids a total of thirty eight terrorist elements were neutralized which included the now dead new leader. He is the fourth leader to die this year and since his death thousands of troops have surrendered to Nigerian army forces.
The reason that so many Islamic State West African Province leaders have died in the past year is because of the conflicts between Islamic State West African Province and Nigerian forces. Islamic State West African Province is an “off brand” Boko Haram insurgent group that has been involved with conflicts with Nigerian forces for over ten years. During these Conflicts there have been over 300,000 deaths and millions dependent on aid. These conflicts have also reached into neighboring countries like Chad and Cameroon.
It was in Nigeria’s national interest to neutralize or kill this Islamic group leader and terrorist elements. By Nigeria launching these land and air raids they used the security dilemma. The security dilemma is shown because Nigeria was worried about the security of their own country so they launched these air raids and land raids to weaken the security of their enemies to show that they should not be messed with and threatened. They also had to have used the level of analysis because they had to have that if we launch these raids what is going to happen if we succeed our mission and will there be backlash from killing their leader. Luckily for them it ended up that thousands of enemy troops have surrendered to the,.