Nigeria’s kidnappers exploit online public empathy to extract higher ransoms
Kidnapping for ransom has become one of Nigeria’s most pervasive and destabilising security threats. Once concentrated in the Niger Delta and tied to militancy, it has spread across the country, embedding itself in the conflict economies of the northwest and central regions. From 2018-2023, banditsk...
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