Nigeria Insecurity and Banditry
Insurgency in the northeast and armed banditry in the northwest have displaced millions.
Severity score
56.5
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Boko Haram and ISWAP remain active in the Lake Chad basin while mass kidnapping and armed banditry have spread across the northwest. Farmer-herder conflict adds a further layer. The combined effect is severe food insecurity and school closures across northern Nigeria.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
64Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
84People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
42Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
14Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
58Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.