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Members of the Yansakai vigilante group sit inside the Zamfara State Government house as their members surrendered more than 500 guns as part of efforts to accept the peace process of the state government (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)
(Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)
Boko Haram Isnât Nigeriaâs Biggest Problem
LAGOS, NigeriaââThis gun, our forefathers used to use it for catching animals,â said the elderly man as he handled the decrepit rifle.
âThe bandits will be firing at us with AK-47s, AK-49s, and other sorts of machine guns. But those vigilantes who are well equipped with the grass root,â he said, now holding up some herbs, âthe bullet doesnât penetrate their body.â
Widows of soldiers killed by Boko Haram lament husbands unpaid life insurance claims
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Olusola Fabiyi, Oyetunji Abioye and Jesusegun Alagbe
Published 15 May 2021
Olusola Fabiyi, Oyetunji Abioye and Jesusegun Alagbe
Published 15 May 2021
Troops can’t be schooling when we’re in a war situation –Brigadier generals
Following intensified insurgency attacks across the country, particularly in the North, the Nigerian Army has recalled a large number of its personnel studying in civil institutions (universities and polytechnics) across the country, according to a leaked memo by the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Department of Army Training, Abuja.
In the memo dated May 11, the Nigerian Army also suspended the sponsorship of personnel in civil institutions with the exemption of students in the final year.
Southern Africa: SADC Acts On Mozambique Terrorism
April 29, 2021
By Mukudzei Chingwere
SADC is committed to achieving lasting peace, security, reconciliation and development in Mozambique with the ongoing Extraordinary Troika Summit, which will culminate in the meeting of Heads of State and Government tomorrow, an expression of the region’s resolve to tackle insurgency in the country.
The extraordinary Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation meeting, that will be convened in Mozambique comes at a time when the region recommended robust action to be taken to tackle the threat of extremism and terrorism in Mozambique.
Following the double Sadc Troika held in Mozambique on the 8th of this month, President Mnangagwa, who is the outgoing SADC chair for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation (Sadc Troika) signalled that regional military support for Mozambique may be on the way in its fight against Islamic State-aligned extremists in the Cabo Delgado region.