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    Domestic, regional, and transcontinental weapon sources

    This dispatch presents the first field-based study of small arms and ammunition used by armed groups and communities in northern Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflicts. It identifies weapons diverted from state stockpiles across the Sahel and trafficked into Nigeria through long-range organised criminal networks.

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