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Deadly Kwara massacre exposes Nigeria’s worsening security crisis

Nigeria is reeling after one of its deadliest attacks in recent months. Gunmen stormed a village in Kwara State, killing at least 162 people, according to the Red Cross, as search teams continue to recover bodies. The massacre has once again highlighted the country’s deepening crisis of insecurity.

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00:01Nigeria is still reeling after one of its deadliest attacks in recent months.
00:06Gunmen stormed a village in Karara state, killing at least 162 people, according to the Red Cross.
00:13The search for bodies continues, the massacre underscoring Nigeria's deepening crisis of insecurity.
00:19Nigeria is in a deepening conflict trap right now, and it's so bad that the country is dealing with a mix of actors with a very complex security landscape.
00:41But still also, which makes it even more challenging for the armed forces, is that in a conflict location, you could have more than one actor,
00:58which perhaps is what you are referring to, overlapping actors.
01:03Nigeria is battling a 16-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast alongside deadly farmer-herder clashes in the north-central region.
01:13But these crises are only part of a much wider security breakdown.
01:17Apart from the much-covered issue of farmer-pastoralist conflict, you also have the problem of ethnic militias.
01:30Not always between the Fulani and other indigenous communities, but also between indigenous communities like Chuku and the Thief militias in the Taraba-Bienue border area.
01:44Rising bandit attacks along the Benin Republic border are turning a local security issue into a serious threat to Nigeria's national security.
01:55Nigeria's border area with the Benin Republic is very much ungoverned.
02:00You know, you have forest corridors linking these areas.
02:04You have this Kenji National Park, you know, that is very much ungoverned.
02:09So that's an opportunity for them, number one.
02:12Once a peaceful gateway, the border has seen a surge in violence, threatening the main artery that feeds the southwest's industrial and consumer markets.
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