US Ambassador to the United Nations while speaking on the international travel ban, assets freeze and arms embargo on Boko Haram said, "By adding Boko Haram to the U.N.'s 1267 (al Qaeda) sanctions list,
the Security Council has helped to close off important avenues of
funding, travel and weapons to Boko Haram, and shown global unity
against their savage actions." The sanstions happened because Nigeria formally asked
the council committee to blacklist the Islamist Boko Haram on May
21. The Nigerian mission to the United Nations explained in its letter
to the council committee that the Boko Haram listing request had been "necessitated by the recent upsurge in its activities, particularly in northeast Nigeria".
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