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Security challenge in rural Nigeria

I recently received information from rural Kwara State about villages being deserted by their inhabitants because of threats by kidnappers. The allegation is that the kidnappers first showed up on the ...
There is no US-led conspiracy or a ‘Christian genocide’. There is an insurgency that has adapted.
Agent Orange. Gulf War oil fires. Syria's pipeline emissions. Russia-Ukraine's 100 million tonnes of COâ‚‚. Militaries ...
Explore Nigeria's insecurity crisis, where banditry, kidnapping, and terror are symptoms of a deeper governance failure ...
Since the beginning of the fight against insecurity in Nigeria, the airstrikes on December 26, 2025, on two terrorists’ hideouts in ...
Khaberni - When imagining African landscapes, they are often envisioned as dusty, dry, and with little vegetation cover.
Fulani terrorists killed 12 Christians in attacks on two worship services on Easter Sunday in Kaduna state, Nigeria, following the killing of 17 Christians in Benue state, sources said.
That Nigeria is almost reeling on the floor over terror attacks is stating the obvious. That it is assuming a characteristic ...
Forests, Nigeria's vast repository of natural resources and scenic landscape, have increasingly devolved into dens where terrorists, bandits, armed robbers and other criminal elements hibernate to ...
Following the 2022-2023 coups in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the junta regimes turned to Russia, China and even the US. Now, the EU wants to invest more in West Africa's security and growth to forge ...
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Since 2020, Russia has been expanding its presence in the Sahel region, seizing the initiative from Paris and Washington and enhancing its standing across sub-Saharan Africa. Recognizing that mounting ...