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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The Alarming Rise of Femicide in Cameroon
Christina Ekobena* has lived in Douala in Francophone Cameroon for five years. She was forced to relocate outside her native…
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Daily Kidnappings Plague Resettled Communities in Lake Chad Region
As Mallami Abadam cast his final net on the evening of Feb. 3, he was ready to call it a…
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Congolese Children More Prone to Dying From Water-Borne Diseases Than From Violence, UNICEF Says
Children living in the war-torn areas of the Democratic Republic Congo (DR Congo) have three times more risk of dying…
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Over One Million Children Denied Access to Education As DR Congo Strives to Reclaim Captured Towns
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) army has announced the recapture of five strongholds of the Mobondo militia in…
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Global Terrorism Index: Nigeria Ranks Sixth, with 565 Fatalities in 2024
Nigeria has ranked sixth in the 2025 Global Terrorism Index, with a score of 7.658, moving up from eighth place…
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‘We Survived’: Benue Varsity Students Regain Freedom After a Week in Captivity
Three students of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University (JOSTUM), formerly the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, in Benue State, North-central Nigeria,…
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M23 Rebels Abduct 130 Hospital Patients in DR Congo
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in the Goma city of…
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Recruitment of Child Soldiers, Sexual Violence Persist Amid Ongoing War in DR Congo
The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says it is preoccupied by the intensification of violence in the eastern…
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Nigerian Students Protest Abduction of Three Benue Varsity Students
Following the abduction of three students, all women, from the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka Federal University, formerly known as the Federal…
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Deadly Armed Group Joins M23 Rebels to Capture More Areas in DR Congo
The Twirwaneho, a deadly militant group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), has formed an official coalition with…
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