ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan appointed an experienced former army general from the Muslim north as his defence minister on Wednesday, as he looks to combat an increasingly bloody Islamist insurgency there.
Jonathan is struggling to cope with Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in a four-year insurgency aimed at carving an Islamic state out of a country of 170 million people, split between Christians and Muslims.
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