The Jihadist group #Lakurawa actively recruits new members in Northwest #Nigeria, offering to protect the communities from banditry. Oyewole Oginni and Mustapha Alhassan speak with Channels Television on Lakurawa's agenda.
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🟢 Torture, abuse and abduction of #civilians: An investigation by the collective Forbidden Stories documents the atrocities that Russian mercenaries have perpetrated since arriving in #Mali in 2021.
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🟢 The rise in militant attacks by armed groups in #Nigeria also fuels a dangerous rise in insurgency, banditry and terrorism.

Oyewole Oginni interviewed by Channels Television. Watch here ➡https://shorturl.at/bJCBm

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🟢 Despite efforts to address the protracted conflict involving #BokoHaram and its splinter groups in the #LakeChadBasin, common integrated approaches to dealing with armed groups are still lacking among member states.

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🟢 At the Pre-Forum to the 5th Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum we discussed policy recommendations from local perspectives for the development of regional approaches to dealing with #ArmedGroups in the #Sahel.

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