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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Separatist Agitation Resurfaces As Attacks On Police In Southeast Nigeria Return
“The separatist have started again and they are already attacking police stations. I lost another friend again last week,” a…
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3R Rebels Displace Central African Republic Soldiers, Take Over Village
Four civilians and one soldier of the Central African Republic national army, FACA, were killed on Tuesday, March 22, when…
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ADF Rebels Kill Civilians With Machete In New Attack On DR Congo Villages
At least eight civilians were killed on Sunday, March 20, when rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked Mayi…
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#DapchiAbduction: Before Her Abduction, Fatima Hoped To Become A Nurse
Dapchi, Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria. 5:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Feb. 19, 2018. When she first hears the gunshots, she…
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Sexual Violence Against Women, Girls In South Sudan Amounts To War Crimes—UN
Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in areas of conflict in South Sudan, fuelled by systemic impunity, amounts to…
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Terrorists Told Kaduna Community They Were Coming, Then Attacked Despite ‘Military Presence’
The rumour that there was going to be another terrorist attack was not news in Gworok, popularly known by its…
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Attacks On Security Personnel In Northern Nigeria Hit 102 In One Month
A total of 102 security personnel were reportedly killed or abducted by non-state actors in different regions of northern Nigeria…
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DR Congo Negotiator Released, Colleagues Remain Rebel Hostages
One person out of a delegation of eight negotiators sent by President Felix Tshisekedi to negotiate peace with rebels in…
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MSF Suspends Mission In Part of Eastern DR Congo Over Insecurity
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it has closed all projects in some parts of Ituri Province, Eastern Democratic…
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Man Murders Police Commissioner In Eastern DR Congo
A commissioner of police was on Saturday, Mar. 19, killed in Boende, chief town of Tshuapa province in the Democratic…
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