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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Four Police Officers Killed In Attack In Southeast Nigeria
Four Nigerian Police Officers were killed on Friday, August 5th, when a group of separatist militants attacked the Agwa Divisional…
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Amid Rising Insecurity, Zamfara Gov’t Asks IDPs To Return Home
The Zamfara Government has ordered Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in terrorised communities of the state to return to their home…
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U.S. Played Secret Role In Nigeria Attack That Killed More Than 160 Civilians
The United States played an unacknowledged role in the 2017 bombing of an internally displaced persons’ camp in Nigeria that…
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Cameroon Army Kills Ten Separatist Fighters
The Cameroon military high command has announced that its soldiers killed ten separatist fighters on Sunday, July 31, 2022, in…
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UN To Publicly Try Blue Helmets Who Murdered Civilians In DR Congo
The United Nations has said it is working towards a public trial for the UN peacekeepers who, Sunday, July 31,…
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How A Series Of Blunders Paved The Way For Boko Haram Insurgency
Thirteen years ago, Nigeria was on a collision course with a little-known extremist group with a home base in the…
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Terrorists Abduct School Headmaster, Women, Demand 30 Jerricans Of Fuel In Zamfara
In a week-long series of attacks on villages in Ruwan-Jema, Zamfara, Northwest Nigeria, terrorists kidnapped many residents, including 29 women…
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Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Attack In Nigeria’s Capital
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on soldiers deployed around the Zuma…
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4 Persons Electrocuted During Protest Against UN Forces In DR Congo
Four persons died on Wednesday, July 27, during demonstrations against United Nations Blue Helmets in Uvira, the second largest town…
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DR Congo, UN To Probe Protest Against MONUSCO
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo says it is establishing a joint commission with the United Nations to…
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