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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What’s Left of Benue State’s Deserted Communities?
The paths that lead home are now silent. But it wasn’t always like that. Years ago, weekdays in Tse Torkula…
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Sudan’s War: A Data Alarm That Should Have Shaken the World
Since April 2023, more than 12 million people have been displaced, nearly 9 million inside Sudan and over 3 million…
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Reformed Gangs Are Becoming the Guardians of Peace in Maiduguri
Ngomari Costine has a terrible reputation. The area, in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, is filled with delinquent youth popularly referred to…
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DRC Forces Repel ADF Terrorist Attack on Mining Town
Forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), supported by local militias and Ugandan troops, repelled an early morning attack…
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The Terror Strategy Behind Fuel Shortages Crippling Mali
On a hot October morning, fuel pumps at a dozen service stations in Bamako, the capital of Mali, sputtered to…
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A Text Message Is the Bridge Between Peace and Violence in Cross River
On a Sunday evening in March this year, Akiba Ekpeyong, a community leader in Akpap-Okoyong, received a text message that…
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Khartoum Was Home Until It Wasn’t
When conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) had reached its peak in early…
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What Happened to Gallari’s 42 Men After 12 Years in Military Detention?
Before his arrest 12 years ago, Ahmadu Gujja was a strong man in his mid-20s and his family’s breadwinner. Life…
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Pushing Through a Decade of Armed Violence in North West Nigeria
After terrorists chased her from her home in Lungu village of Sokoto State, Saratu now sits in Jabo town, devastated…
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Peace Initiative Struggles to End Cross River’s Deadly Land Dispute
It was a sombre Thursday afternoon in Alesi, a community in Ikom Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State,…
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