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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Living On Edge In A Terrorised Nigerian City
The Bright Udenze Ogbuabia family had a dream: to build their own house in a city they had come to…
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Why Is The Crisis In Africa’s Central Sahel Getting Worse?
The epicentre of terrorism has relocated from the Middle East to Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Global Terrorism Index report…
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Terrorists Attack Northwestern Nigeria Communities ‘For Ramadan Relief’
In a desperate search for food items, a terrorist group launched separate attacks in the Ruwan-Bore and Gidan-Zuma areas of…
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Residents Of Sokoto Village In Agonising Wait After Almajiri Children’s Abduction
It was late Saturday evening, a little after 5 p.m. Umaru Tsoho, 57, sat on a broken piece of mudbrick,…
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Buda: Escaping Abduction In A Southern Kaduna Village. But For How Long?
Idris Umar, 19, bolted up in the dead of night four days after the infamous abduction of about 280 school…
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15 Nigerian Soldiers Killed As Residents Flee In Fear Over Reinforced Army Presence
Some residents of the Okuama and Okoloba communities in Delta State, South-south Nigeria, have reportedly fled their homes over fear…
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Kuriga: The Many Attacks That Culminated Into A Mass Abduction In A Kaduna Community
The door-to-door toting of guns in Kuriga started as far back as 2011. “We have had at least 15 attacks,”…
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Terrorists Invade Resettlement Site In North East Nigeria
At around 12:25 a.m on March 7, terrorists belonging to the Boko Haram terror group invaded the resettlement site in…
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Number Of Victims Of Ngala Abduction Still Unknown – Borno State Government
The Governor of Borno State, North East Nigeria, Babagana Zulum, has spoken out regarding the alleged mass abduction of internally…
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What Is Responsible For The Underreporting Of Africa’s Conflicts?
Africa has a history of conflicts that have remained unresolved for many years. The civil war in South Sudan lasted…
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