The ISS conducts fieldwork and quantitative futures research to understand national, regional and continental trends in conflict, politics, economics and development. Results inform local and international policy and strategy, and enable decision makers to test the implications of their policy choices well into the future.
To defeat armed banditry in its north-west region, Nigeria needs to adopt a new approach to policing.
10 tons of ammunition previously laid in civilian settlements by Libyan militia and Wagner group mercenaries .
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Attacks on electoral materials and election commission officials in the south-east region of Nigeria could have serious implications for the overall success of 2023 presidential election.
Catholic faithful stage a peaceful protest to condemn the rampant killing in Benue State, North Central of Nigeria.
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Ahead of 2023 general elections, there are increasing concerns that the current spate of violence in Nigeria, if unchecked, could undermine electoral outcomes.
Christians hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja in March 2020.
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Incidents of terror attack on churches in Nigeria don’t happen in a vacuum. They are driven by jihadism, pastoral conflicts and related criminality.
Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu.
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Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
Le ministre israélien de la Défense, Benny Gantz, serre la main du ministre marocain des Affaires étrangères, Nasser Bourita, à Rabat, le 24 novembre 2021, jour de la signature d’un accord de coopération sécuritaire entre les deux pays.
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