Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: February 23 – March 01, 2025

This update highlights organized violence and insecurity in the Niger Delta, with a focus on communal tensions and organized criminal violence in Edo State. Recent data indicates a rise in both communal and criminal violence, exacerbating conflict risks and insecurity. The resurgence of organized violence could cause instability in the State. Loading... Taking too long? [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: February 16-22, 2025

This update highlights organized crime in the Niger Delta, focusing on criminal violence and targeted killings in Imo State. Data shows a rise in kidnappings, killings of residents, and clashes between criminal groups and government security forces. The prevalence of criminal violence underscores the growing security challenges in the State. Download: Niger Delta Weekly Conflict [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: February 09-15, 2025

This update spotlights organized criminal violence in the Niger Delta, focusing on the resurgence of kidnap-for-ransom in Ondo State. Recent data indicates a surge in kidnapping incidents, especially along highways and in rural communities. The rising trend poses a serious threat to human security and socio-economic stability in the State. DOWNLOAD: Niger Delta Weekly Conflict [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: February 02-08, 2025

This update highlights organized crime in the Niger Delta, focusing on criminal violence and cult gang-related killings in Rivers State. Clashes between cult gangs and criminal violence remains the major drivers of insecurity in the state. Recent data shows a resurgence of violence and killings perpetrated by hoodlums and cult gangs in the State. Download: [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: January 26 – February 01, 2025

This update highlights organized violence and insecurity in the Niger Delta, with a focus on escalating communal tensions and criminal violence in Delta State. Recent data indicates a surge in lethal incidents, driven by a resurgence of communal conflicts and criminal activities, significantly impacting the state's security landscape. Download: [Download not found] Loading... Taking too [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: January 19-25, 2025

This update highlights emerging threats to public health and human security in the Niger Delta, with a focus on the ongoing cholera outbreak in the region. Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease caused by ingesting food or water infected with the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. Recent data indicate outbreaks in Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom.   [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: December 15-21, 2024

This weekly update highlights the rising trend of kidnapping in the Niger Delta, which remains a significant security threat in the region. Over the years, kidnapping has evolved into a complex, organized criminal enterprise and a persistent security challenge. This threat often escalates during specific seasonal periods when criminal groups exploit increased activities and movement [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: December 08-14, 2024

This weekly update highlights illicit drug trafficking and abuse in the Niger Delta. Trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs remain burning issues, contributing to violent conflicts and criminal activities. According to data (see map above), more than 160 incidents of illicit drug trafficking and abuse were reported across the region between January 2020 and September [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: December 01-07, 2024

This week’s update highlights lethal violence in the Niger Delta, with a focus on criminal violence and homicides in Rivers State. According to data (see map above), over 300 fatalities were recorded in Rivers State between January 2020 and September 2024, resulting from homicides and organized criminal violence, including kidnappings, armed clashes, and cult-related killings. [...]

Niger Delta Weekly Conflict Update: November 24-30, 2024

This weekly update spotlights organized criminal violence in the Niger Delta with a specific focus on rising threat of criminal insurgency and targeted killings in Abia State. Violence perpetrated by separatist militias and criminal gangs remains a leading driver of insecurity in the state. According to available data (see map above), over 100 conflict fatalities [...]

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