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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‘Bloody Saturday’: Victims Tell Of Violence In Southern Kaduna Community
Joel Isah Tonak is anguished by his close shave with death. He does not know whether he should feel relieved…
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Elderly Woman Beheaded By Boko Haram In Far North Cameroon
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Zamga, a border village in Far North Cameroon, killing a 75-year-old woman. The woman,…
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Community Feels Abandoned By Government In Conflict With Violent Herders
Before he died, 48-year-old Dayo Festus had several altercations with herders, whose cattle had encroached on his farm in Ajowa-Akoko,…
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Terrorists Kill 32 Fishermen In Northeast Nigeria
Terrorists from the Islamic State have killed dozens of men as they fished in a river in Borno. At least…
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Terrorists Kill Senior Police Officer, Others In Zamfara
A terrorist group has shot dead the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and a police inspector of the Zamfara State Police…
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Threat Of Kidnap Dissuaded Many Voters In Nigeria’s Zamfara
Voters across Zamfara State in Northwest Nigeria were unable to cast their ballots during the Presidential and National Assembly elections…
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Athletes Injured in Cameroon Mountain Race Bombing
18-year-old Obamison Dimitri said he was aware there was a war in Buea, Southwest of Cameroon when he applied to…
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Women Are Both Victims And Combatants In Cameroon
Four years ago, Emmanuela started dating a separatist fighter in Bamenda, a town that has witnessed unrest since 2017. She…
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Cameroon: Teenage Mother Beheaded, Others Feared Killed In Bloody 48 hours
A young woman has been beheaded by fighters from a separatist terror group in Northwest Cameroon, part of a bloody…
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“Every Time I Close My Eyes, They Are Shooting Me Again…”
The excruciating pain and the trauma she experienced come back to her in a flood, even though the incident happened…
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