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News
How Rainy Season Aids Boko Haram Fighters
With the arrival of the first rain, sometime in May, the wheels of armoured tanks and other military vehicles come…
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Features
ISWAP Terror Group Rebrands, Reverses Tradition
The presumed executions in the leadership rank of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror group, ravaging Northeast Nigeria,…
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Analyses
Abu Bilal Al-Minuki: The Terrorist Who Died Twice
By the time the announcement that Abu Bilal Al-Minuki was killed reached the outside world, the strike itself was already…
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Armed Violence
Terror on the Football Pitch: Adamawa Community Recount ISWAP Attack
The referee blew the whistle a few minutes before 5 p.m., on April 26, to kick off the second half…
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Investigations
The Making of the Boko Haram Army
On a hauntingly cold night in 2008, a 28-year-old impressionable fan of Mohammed Yusuf sat in the latter’s compound in…
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Featured
Women in Maiduguri Turn Waste into Cooking Fuel
September 2024 came with water. It moved through Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s North East, in fast, stubborn currents, destroying homes and…
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Investigations
Ideology, Blood, and War: Rethinking the Origins of Boko Haram
Before he became a fugitive preacher, during which time security officials learned to mutter his name with a foreboding weight,…
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Features
The Adamawa Towns Emptied by Boko Haram Insurgency
At the end of every farming season, farmers across Kwapre, an agrarian community in Hong Local Government Area (LGA) of…
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Features
Violence Erodes Adamawa’s Farmer-Herder Social Tradition
The year was 1975. On a quiet afternoon in Bare, a farming community in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa…
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Features
Plateau Communities Confront Kidnap-for-Ransom Crisis
It was just past 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, when Allwell Nelson was abducted from her family residence…
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