The latest attack on Tsamaye, a rural community in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, is horrifying even by the grim standards of Nigeria’s North-West. For nearly six hours, from about 9 p.m. until after 3 a.m., heavily armed bandits reportedly moved through the village almost unhindered, killing residents, abducting dozens, burning homes … Continue reading Death Without End: How Bandit Violence Turned Nigeria’s North-West Into a Landscape of Empty Villages as 21 Die in Sokoto