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Nigeria: Amnesty International Raises the Alarm Over Killings in Zamfara
This Day, 31 July 2018
Amnesty International (AI) has said insecurity is escalating in Zamfara State, with over 372 people killed since January 2018. Read more »
Amnesty International has raised the alarm that insecurity was escalating in Zamfara state, with daily killings and kidnappings by armed bandits, leaving villagers in constant fear of attack. Thousands of people have been displaced by a conflict which began in 2012 as a result of clashes between farmers and herders.
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The government has assembled what it described as 1,000-strong military force to launch fierce attacks on the bandits terrorising the villages and towns of Zamfara State. Read more »
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