Mapping conflict Part Two: Aggression

There is pure aggression, but the subject matter here is broadly based on tribalism, jihad-ism, coercion, imperialism and the such

Nigeria: Rising Toll of Middle-Belt ViolenceThe death of at least 86 people in attacks on six villages in Plateau State, Nigeria, is the most recent in a shocking spate of reprisal violence between nomadic cattle herders and farmers. The government of President Muhammadu Buhari promised to end the violence and hold those responsible to account, but has so far failed to do so.

Christian Farmers and Muslim Herdsmen are at odds over grazing rights and trespass issues. Reprisal killings are ramping up and the Government is failing to stop the cycle. This conflict has the potential to explode.

New jihadist group behind spate of attacks in northern Mozambique - France 24Since the end of May, Mozambique’s far northern province of Cabo Delgado has seen a surge in violence perpetrated by a new Islamist group that first came to the fore in October 2017.

Unemployed Muslim youth are recruited by radical clerics financed by Al-Shabab. Roots in Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania have spread into northern Mozambique and he violence is rising. Smuggling rubies, human trafficking, and the potential for heroin smuggling profits may light a fire under this new jihadist threat

Rohingya militants slaughtered 99 Hindus in a single day: Amnesty InternationalAn armed band of Rohingya militants killed an estimated 99 Hindu villagers in a single day of carnage in Myanmar's Rakhine state, according to an Amnesty International investigation.

Arsa: The Rohingya militants who tipped Rakhine into crisisYANGON (AFP) - The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), the militant group which tipped Myanmar's Rakhine state into a crisis, on Sunday (Sept 10) declared a unilateral ceasefire until Oct 9.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Rohingya crisis has roots in a small militant group called ARSA that attacked Hindu villages and police outposts, killing over 100 and sparking reprisals from the military

Boys forced to rape their mothers during Congo war: UN reportBoys in the Congo were forced to rape their mothers while blood-drinking soldiers feasted on the flesh of dying victims, a nightmarish new report claims. Rebels and government troops in the Kasai r…

'Mum, please pay or they'll kill me': Congo's child kidnapping crisisAmid political and economic turmoil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a new threat in the form of abductors who hold children to ransom

Survivors of Congo's hidden war: 'I don't know how to live anymore'Goran Tomasevic captures the true faces of survivors of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s hidden and forgotten war, as they forge new lives as refugees in their own country

The Democratic Republic of the Congo could very well be the epicenter of moral degradation. A repeating cycle of violence has raised the level of atrocities to a critical point