Nigeria (Vol 17, 2020)
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Throughout the year, Nigeria faced enormous security and political challenges, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the protests against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (sars). The political and socioeconomic situation was characterised by the country’s economic downturn, the worst for three decades, by the ongoing Islamist insurgency in the North East, by the precarious situation in the north-central states (which, inter alia, involved nomadic herders pitched against settled farmers), by the widespread, apparently organised, banditry in parts of the North West, and by a persistently high crime rate in almost all the federal states and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. Some 12,000 people, most of them civilians, lost their lives. Moreover, election and by-election re-runs – out-of-cycle gubernatorial elections at the federal and state levels respectively – posed major challenges to the electoral commission.
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Nigeria (Vol 17, 2020)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Heinrich Bergstresser in
Current site
Google Scholar
(8,746 words)