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380 signals for Criminal+Military+Supply Chain · Niger · Crisis

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CriminalCrisis🇳🇬Nigeria

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Niger

44d ago

Nigeria faces a surge in mass school abductions across multiple states, with armed groups taking at least 39 students and 7 teachers from three schools in Oyo State on May 15, roughly 50 children from Borno State on May 9, and 7 students from a residence in Zamfara State on June 3. Public anger has intensified, with false kidnapping rumors triggering panic in Abuja on June 4.

7.2/10·RFI Français·Abuja, FCT

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CriminalCrisis🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger65d ago

Jihadists abducted several dozen students in the Askia Uba district of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria — near the village of Chibok where 274 schoolgirls were taken in 2014. Separate abductions were reported simultaneously in another region of the country, amid a recent surge in attacks on civilians and military bases in the area.

6.5/10·RFI Français·Askira Uba, Borno

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CriminalCrisis🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger73d ago

Boko Haram militants killed 18 loggers in Nigeria's Borno State, local sources told AFP, in the latest attack to target civilians struggling to survive amid an intensifying jihadist insurgency in the northeast.

6.5/10·AfricaNews·Borno State, Borno

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger81d ago

Chile carried out assault in Lagos [4 sources]

6.5/10·GDELT Events Historical

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MilitaryCrisis🇲🇱Mali 🇧🇫Burkina Faso 🇳🇪Niger+56d ago

Jihadist militant groups in West Africa and the Sahel have escalated beyond isolated attacks, now administering territories, controlling trade routes, and using new technologies to extend their influence southward toward the Gulf of Guinea.

6.0/10·UN News·null, null

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CriminalCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria15d ago

The latest arrest comes amid a series of police operations targeting violent crime, drug trafficking and illegal firearms across Akwa Ibom. The post Police arrest suspected gunman after alleged palace attack appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.7/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria29d ago

The report said the bandits operated around the Niger-Kwara-Kogi axis before the military offensive. The post Troops overrun bandits’ camp in Kogi, rescue two victims – Official appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.7/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria71d ago

PREMIUM TIMES reported that suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters stormed the military base, killing two soldiers, four members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and injuring the commanding officer. The post Army confirms attack on Borno base, says terrorists killed appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.7/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇵🇰Pakistan 🇮🇱Israel 🇮🇳India+33d ago

<p>Most of the people in the pictures seemed amenable to being photographed. Or they pretended to be.</p><p>Motionless for minutes, they stared vacantly at their camera-wielding predators, likely unaware the images would be used to justify <a class="Link" href="https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/digital-archives-teaching-indian-colonial-history-through-photographs-teaching-resource-essay/" target="_blank" >colonial subjugation</a> and spread imperial propaganda.</p><p>Some wary Indians <a class="Link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/19/british-empire-photography-to-control-india-colonialism" target="_blank" >rebelled</a> by refusing to pose as instructed, showing up late or skipping entirely the mid-19th and early 20th century photo sessions orchestrated by the British.</p><p>But even some maharajas donning diamond-encrusted turbans were as powerless as the dhoti- and sari-clad working class to fully subvert the <a class="Link" href="https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/colonial-views-of-india-impey-photographs" target="_blank" >patronizing Western gaze</a>. </p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-570000" name="module-570000"></a> <div class="RichTextSidebarModule-title">Columnists bug</div> <div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h2>Columnists</h2><br><i>In-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and cultural commentary.</i><br></div> </div><p>To give these long-gone photo subjects the agency they were denied, Pakistan-born visual artist <a class="Link" href="https://www.lalikhalid.com/" target="_blank" >Mehreen “Lali” Khalid</a> turned the camera on herself as a form of collective retribution.</p><p>Serving as a "surrogate," Khalid "reclaimed consent and control" by using the same albumen glass plate and silver gelatin print photographic processes that reduced countless pre-Partition South Asians to one-dimensional, "exoticized" specimens.</p><p>The defiant self-portraits, which Khalid snapped in January on the same walk she took for 12 days by the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, are now on <a class="Link" href="https://www.mocp.org/events/diane-dammeyer-fellowship-exhibition-lali-khalid/" target="_blank" >display</a> at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S.

5.5/10·Chicago Sun-Times

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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇮🇷Iran 🇳🇪Niger+125d ago

Mr Trump said he had seen no evidence linking the United States to the attack and suggested that the school may have been hit amid the barrage of missiles exchanged during the Iran war. The post Trump doubts US responsibility for fatal Iranian girls’ school strike appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.5/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger31d ago

An attack on Thursday on the airport and military airbase in Niger’s capital killed 11 members of the security forces and two civilians, the government said in a statement, without identifying the perpetrators. The first explosions were heard at around 6 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), witnesses said, and sporadic gunfire was still audible nearly […]

5.5/10·Cyprus Mail

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria34d ago

The command said two suspected members of a notorious and deadly cult group linked to the attack have been arrested. The post Four killed, two injured in Kwara cult clash appeared first on Peoples Gazette Nigeria .

5.5/10·Peoples Gazette Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria35d ago

The commandant alleged that the suspect attacked and killed Mr Afolabi at the uncompleted building. The post NSCDC arrests 21-year-old Kwara man over alleged kidnap, murder of employer appeared first on Peoples Gazette Nigeria .

5.5/10·Peoples Gazette Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger37d ago

Executive Summary: On April 6, Islamic State’s (IS) news agency Amaq released a statement from its Sahel affiliate, Islamic State in Sahel Province (ISSP). In the statement, the group claimed to have killed 35 al-Qaeda-aligned Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) militants in Niger’s western Tillaberi region. ISSP also claimed to have seized more than 30 […] The post JNIM Escalates Sahelian Offensives Amid Fratricidal War with ISSP appeared first on Jamestown .

5.5/10·Jamestown Foundation

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria11d ago

Suspected ISWAP fighters attacked a military base in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State, killing a soldier before setting a police outpost, a primary healthcare centre and two classrooms ablaze. The post ISWAP attacks army base, burns police post, public facilities appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.1/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria14d ago

The police said they have launched an investigation after gunmen allegedly killed a farmer and wounded another during an attack on farmland in Biase LGA, urging residents to remain calm. The post Police probe killing of farmer, shooting of another in Cross River community appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.1/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger31d ago

[RFI] West Africa's al Qaeda affiliate (JNIM) has claimed responsibility for an attack on Niger's main airport and a nearby military airbase in the capital Niamey, that the government said killed at least 11 soldiers and two civilians. The attack comes six months after other jihadists staged a large assault on the sensitive site.

5.1/10·AllAfrica (Latest Headlines)

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger31d ago

West Africa's al-Qaeda affiliate, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, has claimed responsibility for an attack on Niger's main airport and a nearby military airbase in the capital Niamey, which the government said killed at least 11 soldiers and two civilians.

5.1/10·RFI Africa (French)

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger31d ago

NIAMEY, June 18 (Reuters) - West Africa’s al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on the airport and military airbase in Niger’s capital that the government said killed 11 members of the security forces, highlighting persistent insecurity in the Sahel region.

5.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger31d ago

A group linked to al-Qaeda claimed Thursday’s attack on the airport of Niger’s capital, Niamey, that killed at least 11 soldiers and two civilians, six months after other jihadists staged a large assault on the sensitive site. Twenty-two attackers were also killed as security forces repelled the raid on Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger’s defence ministry said. Gunfire erupted early in the morning and rang out for hours near the airport, where a large military presence was...

5.1/10·South China Morning Post

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MilitaryCrisis🇮🇷Iran 🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria62d ago

He, however, warned that the US military would be prepared to "go forward with a full, large-scale assault of Iran, on a moment's notice" if talks failed to produce a deal. The post Trump says he called off renewed attack on Iran at Gulf states’ request appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

5.1/10·Premium Times Nigeria

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger62d ago

The Defence Headquarters said on Monday at least 20 Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) fighters have been killed in coordinated airstrikes in the Metele general area of Borno State. The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Samaila Uba, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

5.1/10·Ripples Nigeria·Abuja, FCT

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger14d ago

At least nine farmers have been killed and several others abducted in a deadly raid on a farming community in Nigeria's Kaduna State, underscoring the growing insecurity threatening rural livelihoods as armed gangs intensify attacks during the country's planting season.

4.9/10·Africanews

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MilitaryCrisis🇿🇦South Africa 🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria15d ago

Nigeria on Sunday shifted gears from its quiet demeanour as it sharply escalated diplomatic reactions to xenophobic attacks on other Africans in general, and Nigerians in particular living in that country. Nigeria warned that it could activate unspecified measures against Pretoria if the persistent killings and targeted attacks on Nigerian nationals continue, following the deaths […] The post JUST IN: Nigeria changes gear, sends stern warning to South Africa over xenophobic attacks appeared first on Latest Nigeria News | Top Stories from Ripples Nigeria .

4.9/10·Ripples Nigeria·Pretoria, Gauteng

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CriminalCrisis🇨🇮Ivory Coast 🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria15d ago

Odumegwu-Ojukwu had earlier in the week raised the issue of Usama Murtala and five other Nigerian youths, all in their 20s, who were arrested and detained in Abidjan without charge or trial. The post FG demands probe, compensation over death of Nigerian in Ivorian prison appeared first on Vanguard News .

4.9/10·Vanguard Nigeria·Abidjan, Abidjan Autonomous District

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