Boko Haram

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and now abductions - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state. Their latest attack being the Baga killings last week ; the figures of a death toll between 150 to 2000 people has been making its rounds in media. The 2015 Baga massacre has been described as a series of mass killings and attacks believed to have been committed and still ongoing in the Nigerian town of Baga and its environs, in the state of Borno, between 3 January and 7 January 2015 by the terrorist organization Boko Haram.Today on African Dialogue we ask the question: Who is Boko Haram? To assist us on this we are now joined on the line by: • Dr Babatunde Fagbayibo, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public, Constitutional and International Law at the University of South Africa • Ben Shemang: Deputy Director of News at The Voice of Nigeria:• Zakari Aliyu, independent journalist in Nigeria,