Stratfor Vice President of Africa Analysis Mark Schroeder discusses increasing tensions between northern and southern Nigeria and what militant groups in each region hope to gain through attacks.

Abuja does not want international oil companies invested in the Nigerian oil sector to lose confidence in its security environment or to relocate.

Continued incidents could harm foreign interests in Nigeria and surrounding countries and strengthen militant jihadism throughout the region.

Stratfor's Vice President of Africa Analysis Mark Schroeder discusses the links between al Qaeda and the jihadist groups operating in north and west Africa, threats to Nigeria and the French intervention in Mali.

Stratfor explains Nigeria's primary geographic challenge of managing the competition for natural resources between its ethnically divided regions.

French air assaults come as the jihadists break under the pressure of military operations.

Stratfor's VP of Africa Analysis Mark Schroeder examines the militant and jihadist groups affecting countries in North and West Africa.

Boko Haram has killed roughly 770 people this year, but the Nigerian government has successfully eroded the group's capabilities.

The Nigerian government effectively offered a pardon to the accused leader of a militant group based in the oil-rich and politically important Niger Delta.

Since late Sept. 13, protests have intensified and spread to much of the Muslim world.