Nigeria: Civilians in Armed Conflicts in Nigeria - 7,691 Killed in 2 Years - Women, Girls Sexually Molested, Forced to Keep Mum - - Report

10 March 2022

Civilians in the Northeast, Northwest, Northcentral and Southeast regions of Nigeria are usually caught in the middle of ongoing conflicts between the Federal Government and multiple Armed Opposition Groups, AOGs that have grown from Boko Haram since 2009.

Between 2020 and 2021 alone, the report stated that 7,691 civilians had been killed in armed conflicts ranging from attacks by terrorists in the North East, deaths either in kidnappers' dens or in the course of being to the dens that are scattered across forests in the country, in two years.

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