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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00

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Lakurawa is attacking villages in remote corners of northwestern Nigeria and across the border in Niger. At least nine suspected members are known and have been declared wanted by the Nigerian army. The northern region is one of the hottest beds of violence in Nigeria. Lakurawa members were herdsmen who would carry rifles for protection. They formed an organised armed group after local leaders in rural communities of Gudu and Tangaza, in Nigeria’s Sokoto State, invited them to help tackle armed bandits who were then raiding communities for money and cattle. Remote communities in Nigeria are often ungoverned due to the inadequacies of the country’s local and state governments, allowing crime to thrive. Tensions between Nigeria and Niger have hindered a joint and integrated response to Lakurawa. In one of the latest attacks on November 9, the group’s raid on the Mera community left 15 people dead. Nigeria’s military acknowledged in December that it mistakenly killed 10 civilians after an air strike on the group’s munition hideout in the villages of Gidan Bisa and Gidan Runtuwa caused secondary explosions. The villages were a high concentration for the group, an army spokesperson said. Niger’s government has not revealed whether it has conducted special operations targeting the group.

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