Nigeria government under pressure over growing threat from ‘bandits’
20 August 2022 |
12:36 pm
Nigeria's security forces are battling on several fronts, taking on extremist groups in the northeast, criminal gangs in the northwest and center, and separatists in the southeast. Fear among the citizenry is spreading, as DW's Flourish Chukwurah reports.
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