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Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya. [PDF]

open access: yesDisasters
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Rogei DS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Negotiating with the Bandits and Endless Security Challenges in Katsina State, Nigeria (2019-2020)

open access: yesJSW (Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo), 2021
The paper assesses the context of armed banditry, cattle rustling, and kidnappings in Katsina State. The activities of the criminals have been on the rise and the security situation deteriorated after negotiation between the State Government and the ...
Muhammad Abdullahi Maigari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

AN OVERVIEW OF THE GENESIS, SOURCES, MANIFESTATIONS AND IMPACT OF SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS (SALW) IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

open access: yesJournal of International Studies, 2020
The protracted proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) from around the globe to Africa, specifically in Northern Nigeria, had led to a plethora of social crises that have culminated to the insecurity across the region for more than a decade.
Babayo Sule   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

INTERROGATING THE EFFECTS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA’S NORTH-CENTRAL REGION (2015-2022)

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal, 2023
Armed banditry has being a major security challenge confronting northern Nigeria in recent years. Attacks orchestrated by these armed bandits have continued to escalate, especially since 2015 when the Buhari administration came into power with attendant
YUSUFU Ahmed Audu   +2 more
doaj  

Influence of Physical Environmental Factors on The Rising Insecurity in Northwestern Nigeria

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021
Northern part of Nigeria has witnessed a widespread security challenges in recent years, in most cases armed conflicts. Boko Haram's insurgency in the Northeast, herdsmen militancy in North-central, while in the Northwest, banditry has become the major ...
Abdulrahim Umar Darma
doaj   +1 more source

EVALUATING THREATS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON HUMAN AND FOOD SECURITY IN SHIRORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal, 2023
Growing apprehension has emerged in the northern regions of Nigeria regarding the escalating activities of bandits. Consequently, this investigation was conducted to assess the impact of banditry on both human and food security in the Shiroro Local ...
DR MUSA EMMANUEL UMARU   +2 more
doaj  

Nigeria State and Administration of Correctional Centres in Nigeria under Buhari Government [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Education Research Review, 2023
The Nigeria Correctional Services is saddled with the responsibilities of ensuring the development, maintenance and rehabilitation of the convicts using correctional facilities.
CHIGOZIE JOSEPH NEBEIFE   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bandits, banditry and royal power in Catalonia between the 16th and 17th centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is a synthesis of a phenomenon – banditry in Catalonia – which peaked in the century and a half between approximately 1500 and 1630. In this article, by ‘banditry’ we mean the kind waged by both the upper classes and nobility and the lower ...
Belenguer i Cebrià, Ernest
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The socioeconomic dynamics of the shifta conflict in Kenya, c. 1963-8 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Using a set of oral testimonies, together with military, intelligence, and administrative reports from the 1960s, this article re-examines the shifta conflict in Kenya.
Whittaker, H
core   +1 more source

Brigands and Brigadiers: The Problem of Banditry and the Military in Nineteenth-Century Greece [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of History, 2018
Before the evolution of modern standing armies of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, the recruitment and conduct of military units usually depended on their commanders.
Nicholas C. J. Pappas
doaj   +1 more source

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