Tag: Nigeria
Beyond Piracy: Nigeria Seeks Maritime Allies
On June 1, six navies answered to a single command for the first time. In Lagos, Nigeria inaugurated the Combined Maritime Task Force (CMTF), a joint force to confront piracy, armed robbery, kidnapping, oil theft, illegal fishing and trafficking across waters from Senegal to Angola. Eleven governments had endorsed the…
When AI Starts Replacing People at War
The debate over artificial intelligence has mostly asked whether machines will replace people at work. In Ukraine, a different kind of substitution is already under way. Short of soldiers, ammunition and time, a country fighting a much larger enemy has turned to drones, software and AI to do the work…
Nigeria Faces Fresh Massacres as U.S. Steps Back
At least 27 people were reported killed in weekend attacks across Nigeria's Benue and Plateau states, in the country's Middle Belt, where farmer-herder conflict and banditry drive much of the violence. Vanguard reported that 18 died in two attacks in Benue's Otukpo area, 16 of them in Otukpo-Nobi early Sunday.…
