Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence ...

Nigeria's bandits, who pursue economic motives rather ... Katsina and Zamfara states in the northwest have implemented cash-for-guns programmes for violent gangs. However, these deals collapsed ...

Criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state killed at least ... central Nigeria terrorised by criminal gangs – called bandits by locals – who raid villages and kill and abduct ...

Kebbi is one of the states in northern Nigeria where armed groups, locally called bandits, routinely attack rural communities and travellers. Mr Abubakar said the bandits that carried out the Sund ...

The report estimated that around 30,000 Fulani bandits operate in several groups in northwest Nigeria, each consisting of anywhere from 10 to 1,000 members. These bandits have been accused of ...

The operation resulted in the neutralization of several bandits and the recovery of ... has been one of the hardest-hit regions in Nigeria’s northwest and north-central areas, grappling with ...

Six security personnel of Zamfara state Community Protection Guards (CPG) and four vigilante group popularly known as 'Yan Sakai' have been confirmed killed by the armed bandits in an ambushed in ...

The Nigerian government wants to rehabilitate and reintegrate bandits who have terrorized ... and tax locals across vast swaths of northern Nigeria. So far, Nigerian officials say Operation ...