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‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis?

Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi was instrumental in arranging a peace deal with bandits. Photograph: Terna Iwar/The Guardian Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi was instrumental in arranging a peace deal with bandits. Photograph: Terna Iwar/The Guardian ‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis? Nigeria has struggled to contain bandit groups who kidnap and kill but

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A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket

Virus-laden bats who live in places like the DRC, the world’s top producer of cobalt, which encompass 60% of the world’s second largest rainforest. Illustration: Guardian Design / Getty Images Virus-laden bats who live in places like the DRC, the world’s top producer of cobalt, which encompass 60% of the world’s second largest rainforest. Illustration:

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Photo: Authors of the study: Kacper Szulecki & Indra Overland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Peace fails if it is not defended. The UN’s peacekeepers cannot do this alone | Jean-Pierre Lacroix

Photo: Authors of the study: Kacper Szulecki & Indra Overland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Cuts in international support threaten the work of the women and men bringing hope to the world’s most vulnerable people Jean-Pierre Lacroix is UN under-secretary general for peace operations At a time when conflicts spill across borders, Am-Dafock –

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