🇳🇬 In northwestern Nigeria, an age-old conflict has turned into a crisis.
Armed bandits kill, kidnap, and terrorise the innocent.
Thousands have died and up to a million people are now displaced from their homes. 1/3
#ZamfaraBandits
Armed bandits kill, kidnap, and terrorise the innocent.
Thousands have died and up to a million people are now displaced from their homes. 1/3
#ZamfaraBandits
Despite the scale of the suffering, this conflict remains poorly understood—in part because it’s so dangerous to report from rural Zamfara.
And so basic questions have gone unanswered: Who are the bandits? What do they want? How and why did this violence get so out of hand? 2/3
And so basic questions have gone unanswered: Who are the bandits? What do they want? How and why did this violence get so out of hand? 2/3
Searching for answers and at huge personal risk, @ankaboy travels across Zamfara state.
Through shocking encounters with victims and perpetrators, #BBCAfricaEye brings us to the heart of this crisis—and face to face with The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara bbc.in/3OEnkjm
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Through shocking encounters with victims and perpetrators, #BBCAfricaEye brings us to the heart of this crisis—and face to face with The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara bbc.in/3OEnkjm
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