The novelist Alice Walker, another close friend, called Efua "someone to sing about" and wanted people to know that nothing — not even death threats — had ever "stopped her from spreading her sheltering intelligence, outrage, and assistance".
The coalition has mustered a mix of airstrikes, intelligence sharing and assistance for Iraqi ground operations against the extremists.
For now, they still rely on American troops for medical evacuation, intelligence and logistics assistance.
US aerial refuelling, intelligence and other assistance has supported that Saudi-led alliance.
But United States intelligence and other assistance to Turkey paved the way for the Turkish strikes.
The US military, far from being a neutral observer, is actively providing the Saudis with intelligence and logistical assistance for their air strikes.
The Japanese offered intelligence and logistical assistance to the United States, a step that lets Japan stay within the bounds of its postwar constitutional ban on collective self-defense.
But, secretly, the Irish authorities provided significant intelligence and other assistance to the Allies because de Valera realized that a German victory would threaten that hard-won independence of which Irish neutrality was the ultimate expression.
If there are real reductions in human-rights abuses, the likely result is better intelligence and increased assistance, which should make it possible for the Nigerian military to turn the tide, given that Boko Haram is estimated to be, at most, a few thousand strong and their fighters appear to lack prior military experience, unlike insurgents in Iraq and Mali.
