Members of the Yansakai vigilante group bring their weapons into the Zamfara State Government house as they members surrendered more than 500 guns to the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, as part of efforts to accept the peace process of the state government in Gusau, on December 3, 2019. - Attacks on villages has seen gangs of bandits terrorise remote communities for years in this impoverished region of Zamfara.
Zamfaras government brokered a controversial peace deal to halt the spiral of violence between bandits and armed vigilante groups opposing them.
At a ceromony before the regional governor Bello Matawale, hundreds of the fighters unloaded sacks full of Kalashnikovs and locally made hunting rifles as part of their promise to disarm. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
Bandits have abducted 30 students and three teachers of Federal Government Girls College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State.
It was reported that a security operative was shot dead while the badits operated.
