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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22 Die As DR Congo Army Clashes With Rebels In Ituri Province
The corpses of 14 civilians and eight militia fighters were yesterday, Thursday, Sept. 1, discovered in the bushes after two…
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Communal Violence In DRC Communities Forces Transporters To Suspend Operations
Transport agencies plying the national highway linking Kinshasa and Bandundu have been forced to suspend operations due to the communal…
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ADF Rebels Continue Attack On Democratic Republic Of Congo Civilians, Kill 14
At least 14 civilians were killed Tuesday, August 30, 2022, during attacks by rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)…
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Ex-Army Officer Arrested For Firearms Possession In Zamfara
The state police command in Zamfara, Northwest Nigeria, arrested a former army officer for possession of illegal firearms on Wednesday,…
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Abducted IRC Official Regains Freedom
A staff member of the International Rescue Committee, Alkali Imam, who was abducted by non-state actors last March, has been…
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Terrorists Attack Commissioner’s Convoy In Zamfara
Terrorists attacked the convoy of Zamfara’s Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Zainab Lawal Gummi, in northwest Nigerian state on…
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Separatists Claim Responsibility For Rocket Attack In Northwest Cameroon
Two Cameroonian soldiers and one civilian were killed Sunday, Aug. 28, when Anglophone separatists attacked a military convoy in Bui,…
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Allied Democratic Forces Attack Beu-Manyama, DR Congo, Kill Civilians
Five civilians, including two women and three men, were killed yesterday, Aug. 29, during an attack by Allied Democratic Forces…
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Civilians, Soldiers Die Following 3 Days Of Fighting In Eastern DR Congo
A total of sixteen persons, including two soldiers, have been killed in the northeast and the eastern Democratic Republic of…
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An Encounter With Kano’s Gang Of Phone Snatchers
On Aug. 24, a lorry heading towards Dawanau foodstuff market in Kano, Northwest Nigeria, blocked the ever-busy Kofar Ruwa underpass,…
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