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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#BokoHaram Roadblocks, Ambushes In Borno Claiming Prime Targets
On Sunday, September 20, insurgents mounted a roadblock on the road leading to Maiduguri from Monguno town, in Monguno Local…
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Nigerian Army Colonel killed in Ambush
Nigerian Army Colonel and veteran of the decade’s long military campaign against Boko Haram was killed in an ambush on…
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Insecurity Forcing Ogun Communities To Use Traditional Safeguards In Combatting Crime
When Olajide finally joined the Supreme Eiye Confraternity as a sophomore at the Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ogun State, it…
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10 Civilians Killed In ADF Attack On Mbau, DR Congo
Ten civilians were killed on Sunday evening in renewed violence by combatants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the…
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Ethnic Tensions Worsen Jihadist Terror Attacks In Mali
It started sometime in 2012 as opposition to the military dictatorship in Mali. There were also citizens’ mobilization against Islamic…
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Timeline: Nigeria’s Brutal History Of Violence And Deaths
For many years since it gained independence, Nigeria has recorded many cases of insecurity and political violence on a large…
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ISWAP Abducts State Officials In Borno
Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP), a splinter faction of Boko Haram have abducted five employees of Borno State Ministry of…
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Boko Haram Kills 10 Chadian Soldiers
Ten Chadian soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in Lake Chad, during a counter-terrorism operation in the region by…
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3R Rebels Stop Exams In Central African Republic
The rebels of the Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation (3R) movement in the Central African Republic have forced the closure of some…
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Anglophone Cameroonians Want Warring Parties, Int’l Community To Prioritise Conflict-Resolution
Nearly four years after what can today be termed the Anglophone separatist war in Cameroon, peace does not seem to…
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