banditry
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Another candidate, Faya Millimono, complained of "electoral banditry" linked, he said, to influence exerted on voters.
From Barron's ● Dec. 30, 2025
Some Nigerians welcomed U.S. intervention, citing their own government’s failure to make headway against terrorism and banditry since the kidnapping of the Chibok girls more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The authorities said that the operations are part of a broader effort to restore stability in the state and the north-west region of Nigeria, which has witnessed repeated banditry attacks.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
Nearly two-thirds of its 213 million people live on less than $2 a day; extremist violence and banditry are rife; and life expectancy is just 53, nine years below the African average.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
Especially I made an effort to abolish or at least curb the banditry, brigandage and outlawry which corrupts the entire rural population of Italy and is a national disgrace.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
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