Concentrating security in volatile areas may not be the solution, as terrorist groups will always take advantage of vulnerable areas.
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In response to the general state of insecurity in Nigeria, local community groups in Lagos are mobilising and providing solutions.
The kidnapping industry fuels insurgencies in Africa’s Sahel region.
Dismantling one of the world’s deadliest terror group’s access to illicit economies is key to countering its activities.
Experts provide insights into the various actors involved in Nigeria’s security challenge, their motivation and why efforts to rein them in haven’t quite succeeded.
Cameroon’s leadership has a history of rebuffing outside intervention in the country’s internal affairs. This has hampered efforts to resolve the anglophone crisis.
In Nigeria, the festive season comes with security and safety challenges. Here’s how to keep safe.
The debut novels of two forceful, intelligent journalists are bold, brash stories of powerful women at the top of their game. One details a horrific sexual crime, the other ugliness in the art world.
A lot is said about kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria but little is known about how families mobilise resources and deliver ransom to kidnappers.
Hundreds of children were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship in Argentina, but over the years some have been reunited with their families.
The interests of bandits and jihadists are converging in Nigeria and this poses a formidable threat to the country’s security.
These wartime abductions aren’t specific to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Throughout history, they’ve inflicted trauma on society’s most vulnerable – making them a rich subject matter for the stage.
Families are worried that a new Nigerian law will stop them getting their kidnapped friends or relatives back.
Two men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 have been found guilty. Their backgrounds and the trial itself raise concerns about the role of extremism in America.
Scholars explain how and why terrorists appear to be running rampant across Nigeria.
Nigerians are at risk of kidnapping as the cost of committing this crime is far less than its benefits.
Ukraine says thousands of Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by Russian soldiers, which is a war crime. The US government kidnapped and forced the assimilation of Indigenous children for decades.
Ending violence against foreigners can only happen by first recognising – and addressing – the hazards of South Africa’s crumbling system of indirect rule.
The Nigerian military needs a systemic approach to solving family disruptions and strains often caused by personnel deployment away from home.
Perceptions of marriage abduction as a recent phenomenon hide the violence that has been done to women as part of culture.
Top contributors
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Director of Research, Academic Development and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University
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Professor of Sociology (Criminology, Victimology and Security Studies), University of Ibadan
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Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nile University of Nigeria
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Lecturer, University of Northampton
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PhD (Maritime Security)
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Professor in Political Economy, King's College London
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Emeritus Professor of Private Law, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Keele University
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Visiting Scholar, University of Florida
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Associate Professor in Geography, University of Florida
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Senior lecturer, Ekiti State University
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Professor of Forensic Medicine, Cairo University