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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Winning Over Locals Key To Military’s Victory Over Insurgency
Reports by human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and the U.S. Department of State on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria,…
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Why Oil Crash May Spell Doom In War Fronts For Nigeria
The memo is in the public domain but its implications appear veiled. The singular main source of Nigeria’s economic sustenance,…
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Over 100 Nigerians Killed Within One Week In March 2020
According to data from Nigerian Security Tracker (NST) between March 7 and 13, at least 112 Nigerians died as a…
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Zamfara Killings, Kidnappings, Escalate In Zamfara AS COVID-19 Rages
As the world battles COVID-19 pandemic, citizens of Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria, are contending with additional nightmares. Several communities have…
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Zamfara Children: Banditry and illegal mining create bleak life
Aminu Mayanchi is barely 14 years of age. He is already saddled with eeking out a living for himself. “I…
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Zamfara State Governor Faults Incessant Banditry On Porous Borders
The Zamfara State government, Northwest Nigeria, has blamed the fresh onslaught by bandits on communities across the state, on the…
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Anxiety In Kaduna Following Fresh Bandit Attack In Rigachikun
Residents of Rigachikun in Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria, are still in trauma after no less than 20 armed bandits stormed…
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Zamfara: Miners In Bed With Bandits Amid Rising Attacks
While Zamfara state, Northwest Nigeria, is engulfed in vicious banditry, killing and pillaging, only miners seem to have figured out…
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Is Landmass Powering Violence In Northern Nigeria? Here’s What The Data Say
The steady rise of violent extremism and its resulting conflicts has rendered Nigeria unsafe. In the past decade, the terrorist…
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Insecurity: Over 600 Nigerians Killed In Two Months
In just 60 days into 2020, no less than 690 lives have been lost to violence across Nigeria, data from…
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