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Multiple Nodes, Common Causes: National Stocktake of Contemporary Insecurity and State Responses in Nigeria

The Nigerian body politic faces a seeming epidemic of insecurity spanning jihadist insurgency, criminal banditry, farmer-herder conflicts, and violent separatist agitations. While governmental responses have overwhelming followed a militarised path to resolving these multifaceted conflicts
CDD
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Coronavirus in Nigeria: The False 5G Claims and other Claims to Ignore

CDD
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Regional Strategy Meeting on Enhancing Traditional Justice in Traditional Justice Process in the ECOWAS Region

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa), in collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs of the ECOWAS Commission, organised a regional strategic meeting on ‘Enhancing Traditional Justice Mechanisms in Transitional Justice Process in the ECOWAS Region’ from 27 to 28 January 2022 in Cotonou, Republic of Benin.
CDD
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Requiem for Democracy? Interrogating Democracy Decline in West Africa

Democracy in West Africa, and Africa in general, has been on a worrying decline in the last five years. The democracy index of the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that democracy declined globally in 2019. The average score for Africa fell from 4.36 in 2018 to 4.26 in 2019, its worst score in over a decade.
Udo Jude Ilo
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Human Right Guidebook

In an attempt to address the needs of local human rights groups, this guidebook has been composed to guide local actors on the basic principles and best practices of upholding human rights. It is written for all those who put their lives on the line in their work to monitor, document, report and publicize human rights violations.
CDD
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Nigeria: Women and Electoral Politics in 2023- Charting the way Forward

As Nigeria enters a new general election season — with political parties already conducting local congresses ahead of primaries next year— what prospects lie ahead for Nigerian women interested in seeking political leadership positions?
CDD
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20 Years of Anti-Corruption Efforts in Nigeria: A Critical Look

Corruption in Nigeria is ubiquitous and takes many forms: from massive contract fraud to petty bribery; from straight-up embezzlement to complicated money laundering schemes. Just six years after independence, the country experienced its first military coup that ousted out the elected officials of the first republic.
CDD
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Nigeria's Human Rights Record: An Assessment of the Last Two Decades

The struggle for human rights in Nigeria has been long, arduous, and continues to this day. Before establishing the current democratic government in 1999, Nigerians were subjected to sixteen years of oppressive military rule marked by scores of human rights violations.
CDD
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Deradicalizing, Rehabilitating and Reintegrating: Building Peace in Nigeria's North East

Since 2009, Boko-Haram's violent activities have ravaged Nigeria's north-east - primarily Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states - leading to the death of over 30,000 civilians and the forceful recruitment of youths, women, young girls, and school children among other human rights violations.
CDD
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Farmer-Herder Conflict in Northern Nigeria: Trends, Dynamics and Gender Perspectives

The farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria has become persistent and pervasive with debilitating consequences on human lives and their sources of livelihoods. Although scholars, policy makers and development workers have given attention to the conflict
CDD
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Sulh-Alheri Ne: Replacing Evil with Something Better: Promoting Alternative Peacebuilding Narratives

The Sulhu Radio Program forms part of the Centre for Democracy and Development's (CDD) efforts to promote initiatives that resolve unaddressed grievances, support forgiveness, healing, reconciliation, and reintegration at the community level across affected communities in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region.
CDD
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Increasing Influence: China in West Africa

This edition of West Africa Insight reflect on the ways China is extending its influence across West Africa. Tobi Oshodi and James Barnett start by providing an overview and analysis of the role Confucius Institutes, of which there are now 15 in West Africa
CDD
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Une Influence Croissante: la Chine en Afrique de l'Ouest/ Increasing Influence: China in West Africa

This edition of West Africa Insight reflect on the ways China is extending its influence across West Africa. Tobi Oshodi and James Barnett start by providing an overview and analysis of the role Confucius Institutes, of which there are now 15 in West Africa, are playing in support of China's soft power agenda in the region.
CDD
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Electoral Corruption in Nigeria: A Study of the 2019 General Elections

This Report is the outcome of research undertaken to understand the drivers and the implications of two forms of electoral corruption, vote-buying and the abuse of the power of incumbency, in Nigeria, and to offer recommendations to diminish their salience as contributory factors in the distortion of competitive party and electoral politics in the country.
CDD
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Africa, Trump, and the Stake of the November 3rd Election

The challenges Africa faces have not changed that much over the last few years: Reclaim its battered dignity, build sound economies and democratic institutions, and address a pressing security crisis. In short, to establish throughout the continent effective democratic, accountable political and security governance.
Boubacar N'diaye, DR
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Women's Representation in Nigeria's Leading Political Parties

Nineteen years since the first attempt to address women's exclusion from national life through a National Policy on Women, produced under the then Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Ismail, the gender inclusiveness it sought to promote, remains elusive, especially in women's political participation.
Ada Agina-Ude, Mufuliat Fijabi
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Young Women in Politics in Nigeria: Issues and Prospects: A Case Study of the 2019 General Elections

Since Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, it has completed seven election cycles. In all these elections, women have been largely marginalised in the political space at all levels. According to the Inter -Parliamentary Union2019 rankings, Nigeria has one of the lowest rates of women's legislative representation in Africa.
Olufunke Baruwa
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Local Learning: Ideas for Reducing Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria

In Nigeria today, the farmer-herder conflict is one of the most pressing conflicts disrupting lives and livelihoods. It was reported that the violent conflict claimed an estimated 8,000 lives from 2011 to 2019, based on a 2019 joint assessment by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees,
Wuraola Solomon
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Post Election Analysis: 2020 Ondo State Off-Cycle Governorship Election

On 10 October 2020 voters in Ondo State went to the polls to elect a governor in its off-cycle governorship election. Like the off-cycle governorship election in Edo State on 19 September, the Ondo State election was remarkable for (a) its widely-acclaimed peaceful conduct;
CDD
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Upsurge in Deadly Violence in the Sahel

The security crisis in the Sahel is spiralling as unprecedented waves of violence surge across the region. The United Nations figures have revealed a five fold increase in the number of attacks in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger since 2016.
CDD
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