Nigeria recorded 792 deaths across 882 security incidents in June – SARI Global report

Nigeria recorded 792 deaths across 882 security incidents nationwide in June, according to a new assessment by risk intelligence firm SARI Global, published on the UN’s ReliefWeb platform.

Non-state armed groups caused the most fatalities: 337 deaths, or 42.5% of the total, despite triggering fewer incidents than government security operations, which recorded 274 of the deaths across 375 incidents. Borno remained Nigeria’s most violent state, with 109 incidents and 172 deaths concentrated around Lake Chad, Sambisa Forest and Gwoza, followed by Zamfara with 63 incidents.

The report flagged ISWAP’s intensifying campaign around Borno’s Monguno axis, combining nighttime raids on humanitarian compounds with daytime attacks on aid supply routes, including the abduction of an international aid worker on June 24 and the burning of NGO-contracted trucks carrying relief supplies.

SARI Global also warned that schools near Sambisa Forest should now be treated as high-risk facilities, citing ISWAP’s June 29 daylight raid on a Borno secondary school.

The firm cautioned that high operational tempo doesn’t equal improved security, projecting that humanitarian conditions will worsen further into July as food insecurity deepens.

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