banditry

Example Sentences

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Access to ransom money has traditionally made banditry a lucrative endeavour, yet in Kurfi, it was bandit leaders who requested peace talks.

From BBC

Communal violence, including clashes between farmers and herders, kidnappings, and banditry, as well as the mass abduction of schoolchildren, have increased.

From Washington Post

Observers have expressed concerns about the safety of voters and election workers, particularly in the north where thousands have died in the last year because of violence linked to Islamic extremists and banditry.

From Seattle Times

Spreading insecurity - especially Islamist violence in the northeast and banditry in the northwest and southeast - threatens to make voting impossible for many thousands of Nigeria's 93.4 million registered voters.

From Reuters

The government is also experiencing other security-related challenges - among them banditry, kidnappings and conflicts involving pastoralists and farming communities, as well as a separatist insurgency in the south-east.

From BBC