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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Seeking Food From A Shark’s Mouth And Crowdfunding Your Way Out
How do you get ransom from a person who has nothing? One, you kidnap many people at once. Two, you…
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More Accountability, Less Politics: Experts Set Agenda For Nigeria’s Security Response
Nigeria enters 2024 with a burden of devastating and multifaceted crises, from increasing attacks in the North West to the…
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Abduction Of Family In Nigeria’s Capital City Raises Concerns About National Security Architecture
On the night of Jan. 2, terrorists invaded the Zuma 1 Bwari area of Nigeria’s capital city. They proceeded into…
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Shared Ethnicity With Terrorists Is Putting Fulanis At Risk In North West Nigeria
Buhari Umar lives with a bag full of questions. Every time he attempts to break the hush about the attack…
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Terrorists Kill Security Operatives In North West Nigeria
Terrorists have killed two security officers in the Anka town of Zamfara State, North West Nigeria, in reaction to the…
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Terror And Treasure: What Happens When Illegal Miners Have To Collaborate With Terrorists?
Sani Black, a 49-year-old terror kingpin, is coercing helpless villagers to work on his illegally acquired mining sites in the…
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Terrorists Abduct 13 Women Over Men Joining Local Security Forces In North West Nigeria
Terrorists ravaging Nigeria’s Zamfara state have abducted over a dozen women, leaving their families and relatives bittered. On Friday, Dec.…
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Terrorists Abduct Travellers, Set Vehicle Ablaze In North West Nigeria
Menacing terrorists operating in Zamfara, North West Nigeria, have abducted at least seven travellers in a spree of attacks as…
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Humanitarian Crisis Looms In Plateau Following Gruesome Christmas Day Attacks
Bwei Hali, 35, was preparing to have a grand Christmas celebration in Plateau, North-central Nigeria, when he started receiving phone…
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Nine Communities Suffer Weeklong Attacks In Nigeria’s North West
Residents of Yarkofoji, Madaci, Dankadu, Rini, Dankaiwa, Birnin-Tudu, and three other villages in thw Bakura local government area of Zamfara,…
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