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April 26, 2021

Nigeria
Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: April 17–23

This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from April 17 to April 23, 2021.

Map of Nigeria shaded in red to reflect Nigeria Security Tracker-documented deaths per state. Borno state, the northeastern-most state, is dark red, while the rest of the country are shades of pink. Regions of Cameroon, Chad, and Niger that have experienced Boko Haram-related violence are also shaded.

May 25, 2021

Nigeria
Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: May 15–21

This update represents violence in Nigeria and related to Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger from May 15 to May 21, 2021.

Map of Nigeria shaded in red to reflect Nigeria Security Tracker-documented deaths per state. Borno state, the northeastern-most state, is dark red, while the rest of the country are shades of pink. Regions of Cameroon, Chad, and Niger that have experienced Boko Haram-related violence are also shaded.

May 6, 2021

Health
The Future of Health-Care Technology

Please join our panelists as they examine how digital health-care technologies worldwide have the potential to transform care, improve outcomes, and help end the COVID-19 pandemic.

Play Woman working in COVID-19 lab.

May 23, 2019

Nigeria
ISWA Tries to Win Over Some Nigerians While Killing Others

The conventional wisdom is that the Boko Haram faction that calls itself the Islamic State in West African (ISWA) is less brutal than Abubakar Shekau’s rival faction, notorious for the Chibok school girl kidnapping and the targeting of civilians. There is some truth to this: ISWA has avoided using female and child suicide bombers and it does not seem to indiscriminately murder entire villages. Its rhetoric does not glory in murder like Shekau’s.

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April 6, 2020

COVID-19
At War With a Virus

Treating COVID-19 as a war of choice rather than one of necessity has proved extraordinarily costly.

COVID-19 and War