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1,184 signals for Criminal+Military+Disaster · Niger

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CriminalCrisis🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger

46d 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 🇳🇪Niger67d 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 🇳🇪Niger74d 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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MilitaryUpdate🇳🇪Niger81d ago

Priest threatened Minist in Niger [6 sources]

6.5/10·GDELT Events Historical

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CriminalUpdate🇳🇪Niger82d ago

Burkina Faso applied coercive pressure in Niamey [6 sources]

6.5/10·GDELT Events Historical·Niamey

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger83d ago

Chile carried out assault in Lagos [4 sources]

6.5/10·GDELT Events Historical

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MilitaryCrisis🇲🇱Mali 🇧🇫Burkina Faso 🇳🇪Niger+57d 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 🇳🇬Nigeria17d 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 🇳🇬Nigeria31d 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 🇳🇬Nigeria73d 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+34d 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+127d 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🇳🇪Niger33d 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 🇳🇬Nigeria36d 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 🇳🇬Nigeria37d 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🇳🇪Niger39d 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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MilitaryResolution🇺🇸United States 🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger67d ago

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, the second-ranking ISIS leader worldwide, was killed in a military operation conducted jointly by U.S. and Nigerian armed forces.

5.5/10·Digi24 (Romania)

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MilitaryUpdate🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger73d ago

Nigeria's military said Friday it killed at least 50 Islamic State jihadists during an operation the previous day in Yobe State in northeastern Nigeria, though two soldiers were also killed in the attack on an IS headquarters.

5.5/10·Senego (Senegal)·Yobe State, Yobe

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DisasterCrisis🇳🇪Niger46d ago

At least 49 people died of thirst after a truck broke down in a remote desert area in northern Niger, leaving passengers stranded for several days.

5.2/10·Pajhwok Afghan News·northern Niger

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MilitaryUpdate🇺🇸United States 🇳🇬Nigeria 🇳🇪Niger61d ago

US-led airstrikes targeting Islamic State forces in Nigeria have degraded the militant group's capabilities, marking an expansion of American military involvement in the region. Analysts caution that the strikes offer only limited long-term disruption while raising concerns about civilian harm.

5.2/10·Deutsche Welle (DW) English

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MilitaryCrisis🇳🇪Niger 🇳🇬Nigeria12d 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 🇳🇬Nigeria16d 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🇳🇪Niger33d 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🇳🇪Niger33d 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🇳🇪Niger33d 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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