Armed Violence
HumAngle’s Armed Violence Desk focuses on stories from the security sector and covers the main actors of the regional conflict ecosystem. It also tracks down sources and combs through records to generate and verify information about trends in insecurity.
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‘We Are Having Sleepless Nights’: Parents Of Abducted Zamfara Students Lament
The parents of the remaining abducted students from Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria, have shared the anguish…
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Gwoza Community Unites In Protest Against Escalating Boko Haram Violence
The harrowing surge in violence perpetrated by the Boko Haram terror group has left residents of Gwoza grappling with fear…
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ISWAP Terrorists Intensify Attacks On Farmers In Northeast Nigeria
A resurgence of attacks by ISWAP terrorists on local farmers in the Gwoza area of Borno, Northeast Nigeria, has resulted…
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Scores Abducted As Terrorists Demand Reopening Of Cow Market In Zamfara
Many local marketers were kidnapped on Saturday, Sept. 9 while in transit to Bagega for the weekly market in Anka,…
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17 Girls Abducted To Serve As Cooks For Terrorists In Zamfara
When Balarabe Umaru*, 32, was abducted on Aug. 2, alongside seven teenage girls from Masa village, he thought all hope…
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Kirawa: A Borno Community Expected Rain, But Bullets Fell Instead
Kirawa residents were expecting rain on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, when, guns blazing, Boko Haram stormed their town. It was…
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Gunshots As Schools Reopen In Cameroon’s Anglophone Region
Students at a private school in Cameroon. Photo:BHeT As a new academic session begins in Cameroon, many schoolchildren and teachers…
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In Sudan, Aid Workers Are Paying With Their Lives As War Rages
People gather at the station to flee from Khartoum during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army…
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Zamfara Residents Protest Release Of Women Held As Pawns Against Terrorists
Hundreds of residents in Birnin-Magaji local government area staged a peaceful protest against the release of two women held by…
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2 Herders Killed During Vigilante Group Raid In Zamfara Market
Eye witnesses say an armed vigilante group numbering about 60 on Wednesday, Aug. 30 killed two herders in Bungudu Central…
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