Nearly 2,000 times in seven years, a bomb went off somewhere in Nigeria’s North-East. A new report puts a hard number on what security forces and civilians there have been living through.
A 2025 Nigeria Mine Action review documents 1,934 improvised explosive device incidents across the region between 2017 and 2024. Road-emplaced IEDs drove the bulk of those attacks in every single year covered, making them the most persistent and lethal threat throughout the period.
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Source: The Nigerian Inquirer News
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