Nigeria - On the Front Line of Climate Change, Conflict

22 March 2018
opinion

The Nigeria Watch Project at the University of Ibadan reported that in 2017 more than 8,600 people were killed in Nigeria from civil strife, criminal acts, resource-related conflicts, and other violent incidents.

While this number is down substantially from the more than 20,000 deaths at the height of the Boko Haram conflict in 2014, the level is more than twice as high than in the five years before 2010.

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