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

A few Californios, aggrieved by that and the power grab resulting from statehood, took to banditry.

From Los Angeles Times

Insecurity is rampant across Nigeria, with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, banditry in the northwest, separatists in the southeast and farmer-herdsmen clashes in the central states.

From Reuters