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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Heightened Security, Panic In Southwestern Nigeria Following Yoruba Nation Coup Attempt
After seeing the viral video of some individuals who attempted to take over the government secretariat and House of Assembly…
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Fishermen In Nigeria’s North East Either Pay Levies To Terrorists Or Risk Assault, Death
Standing on the shores of Lake Chad in Baga, Nigeria’s North East, 41-year-old Yusuf Usman and his son, Ibrahim, tidied…
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A Decade After, 89 Abducted Chibok Girls Still Missing – Borno Gov’t
Ten years have passed since the infamous night of April 14, 2014, when Boko Haram insurgents stormed the Government Girls…
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Living On Edge In A Terrorised Nigerian City
The Bright Udenze Ogbuabia family had a dream: to build their own house in a city they had come to…
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Why Is The Crisis In Africa’s Central Sahel Getting Worse?
The epicentre of terrorism has relocated from the Middle East to Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Global Terrorism Index report…
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Terrorists Attack Northwestern Nigeria Communities ‘For Ramadan Relief’
In a desperate search for food items, a terrorist group launched separate attacks in the Ruwan-Bore and Gidan-Zuma areas of…
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Residents Of Sokoto Village In Agonising Wait After Almajiri Children’s Abduction
It was late Saturday evening, a little after 5 p.m. Umaru Tsoho, 57, sat on a broken piece of mudbrick,…
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Buda: Escaping Abduction In A Southern Kaduna Village. But For How Long?
Idris Umar, 19, bolted up in the dead of night four days after the infamous abduction of about 280 school…
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15 Nigerian Soldiers Killed As Residents Flee In Fear Over Reinforced Army Presence
Some residents of the Okuama and Okoloba communities in Delta State, South-south Nigeria, have reportedly fled their homes over fear…
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Kuriga: The Many Attacks That Culminated Into A Mass Abduction In A Kaduna Community
The door-to-door toting of guns in Kuriga started as far back as 2011. “We have had at least 15 attacks,”…
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