The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, has said that the recent withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali from the Economic Community of West African States has significantly increased the security burden on Nigeria’s military.
Nigeria’s Chief of the Air Staff, CAS, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, says the withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States from ECOWAS has disrupted existing security frameworks. Abubakar also said that plans by Chad to pull out of the Multinational Joint Task Force will affect the ability of the joint security force to conduct operations.
Gunmen have attacked villages in Shiroro and Munya LGA of Niger State, killing one person, abducting several residents, and rustling an unconfirmed number of cattle.
With a ballooning population, armed insurgents, climate crisis, dwindling natural resources, and huge socio-economic disparity, the Lake Chad region has endured a complex plethora of crises since 2009.
resulting in a deadly war that has spilled over to Nigeria’s northern neighbors Chad, Niger and Cameroon. USAID, for instance, partnered with the U.N. migration agency in Nigeria in its Rapid ...
In the Sahel, human rights defenders are being targeted more than ever by the various states, while civic space is deteriorating and public freedoms are under threat. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a partnership of FIDH and OMCT) publishes today a
Nigerian lawmakers have approved an additional $200 million for the health sector as part of its 2025 spending plan to offset the shortfall from U.S. aid cuts.