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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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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New ISWAP Leader Slays Five Rebel Leaders, Silences Clerical Tones
The new leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, Lawan Abubakar, otherwise called Ba Lawan, is moving rapidly…
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ISWAP Terror Group Rebrands, Reverses Tradition
The presumed executions in the leadership rank of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror group, ravaging Northeast Nigeria,…
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Kidnapping On The Rise In Abuja; Police Insist City Is Safe
Rafiu Motunrayo, a law graduate from Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, was eager to register for her…
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