Officials have tried to brush off the violence as mere banditry.
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However, most of its activities are banditry, like piracy and kidnap.
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The Kurdish record features internecine conflicts, smuggling, sanctions-busting and banditry.
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The southern Philippines has been marred for decades by insurgency and banditry.
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Moscow has rejected the accusation, saying it amounts to "banditry" on Britain's part.
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Abu Sayyaf has its roots in separatism and but engages mostly in banditry.
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The violence, they often say, is squabbling between Muslim clans, or common banditry.
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Unemployment is at least 20%, and banditry and oil theft on land are widespread.
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But it has its hands full with insurgencies, banditry and local conflict on land.
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Back then, we worried about stepping on land mines and isolated acts of banditry.
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By the early nineties, it had fallen into decline, blighted with unemployment, alcoholism, and banditry.
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Despite such encouraging moves toward peace, Mali mains plagued by banditry and deadly Islamist attacks.
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Many credited the Islamists with drastically reducing banditry, something the army had failed to do.
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The incident made maritime banditry infamous, later becoming the basis of the movie Captain Phillips.
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IN 1933 Britain's parliament was considering the Banditry bill—the government's response to a crime wave.
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The production area in the Turkana region has long been plagued by banditry and cattle rustling.
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Initially dismissed as isolated acts of banditry, attacks like the one on Chitolo in March are increasing.
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Many Chadians—including former and current rebels, soldiers, and police officers—resorted to highway banditry to survive.
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Its ranks deteriorated into banditry not long after its founder, Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, was killed in 1998.
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Nigerian security forces are stretched by the Islamist insurgency along with communal violence and banditry in other areas.
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Once Duvier arrived, he reportedly called the French Banditry Repression Brigade, a unit which encompasses around 100 men.
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That public profile has led to the asking of questions similar to those which resulted in the Banditry bill.
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Thousands of Anglophones fled the ensuing crackdown, which Cameroon authorities said was necessary to restore peace and curb banditry.
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Some simply protect their home areas, but others go rogue, engaging in banditry like stealing cattle and robbing travelers.
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Security forces are currently stretched by the Islamist insurgency as well as by communal violence and banditry in other areas.
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Nigeria has for years been plagued by corruption and forms of banditry ranging from armed robberies to kidnapping for ransom.
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Mindanao is troubled by banditry and armed rebellions that keep large parts of the region mired in poverty and instability.
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Nigerian security forces are stretched by an Islamist insurgency in the northeast along with communal violence and banditry in other areas.
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Puccini's tale of banditry and love, set in the California gold rush, receives a production from the New York City Opera.
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Without a known foreign source of funds, Abu Sayyaf has survived mostly on ransom kidnappings, extortion and other acts of banditry.
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In addition, there are oil-fueled militancies in the Delta to the south and banditry and kidnappings through much of the country.
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"Therefore Washington's current actions - capturing and maintaining military control over oil fields in eastern Syria - is, simply put, international state banditry," it said.
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Prices have risen sharply, emptying the pockets of those who can least afford it, forcing some into banditry to tend to their needs.
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The ZANU-PF party's spokesman, Paul Mangwana, dismissed the protesters' actions as "banditry" and said that they had damaged property in the capital.
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Abu Sayyaf, which has its roots in separatism, is notorious for banditry and piracy, including beheading some captives if no ransom is paid.
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When his nephew, Alexander VI, came to power in 1492 the Eternal City was suffering from the eternal problems of banditry, corruption and violence.
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He pretended that scattered instances of banditry amounted to a massive armed revolt, and ordered his North-Korean trained Fifth Brigade to crush it.
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Most often, people cited the government's failure to protect them from banditry, which had grown since firearms began to proliferate in the early 1990s.
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The military has been struggling to wipe out Abu Sayyaf, which originally had Muslim separatist aims but now engages mostly in banditry and piracy.
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Despite the long history of militancy and banditry in the area, it has taken the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia a long time to pool resources.
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Basilan is a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, a group better known for its banditry and kidnapping, though it has pledged loyalty to Islamic State.
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After the Soviet Union's collapse "absolute bacchanalia" and "absolute banditry" took hold, says Vladimir Panin, director of STIKS-S, one of Moscow's oldest funeral bureaus.
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In a House of Commons debate on the lessons of the Suez crisis, the Labour member Tony Benn attacked as "banditry" the government's foreign policy.
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The Bahamian pirates were unlike most other pirates who've come before or since in that they claimed to be engaged in more than simple banditry.
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The Russian government on Saturday criticized the U.S. for bolstering military resources in eastern Syria, calling the move an "act of international state banditry," Rueters reports.
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Nigerian security forces are stretched by the Islamist insurgency in the northeast along with communal violence and banditry in other areas in Africa's most populous nation.
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They come under attack on a regular basis, and tell us that over the last two years the main threat has morphed from banditry to terrorism.
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"They are not going back to same old, same old ways of the past, the wild west kind of banditry," Patrick Njoroge told a news conference.
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The Philippines has a state policy to not negotiate with any group defined as terrorists, like the Abu Sayyaf militants behind extremism, kidnapping, banditry and piracy.
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The group, made up of people originally from ex-Soviet Central Asia, is accused of committing 17 murders, banditry and other grave crimes, the Investigative Committee said.
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The fighting is stretching a government that is also trying to contain a jihadist insurgency in the north-east and banditry in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will deploy its air force and 1,000 security personnel to fight banditry in the northwest of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.
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Nigeria's security forces have been stretched in recent years by an Islamist insurgency in the northeast as well as by communal violence and banditry in other areas.
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Kenyan media said the protests were to demand the deployment of more security forces in the area, which has long been plagued by banditry and cattle rustling.
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Under Saudi Arabia's reading of Islamic law, such attacks are interpreted as "banditry", carrying an automatic sentence of death followed by public display of bodies on gibbets.
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Many Nigerians say that promise has been unfulfilled on a number of fronts — including a war with Islamist militants as well as rampant banditry in some areas.
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Multiple peace pacts with Moro groups have since collapsed or run into delays, consigning Mindanao to economic neglect and poverty, and fuelling a culture of insurgency and banditry.
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But it is better known for its lucrative acts of banditry and piracy that have not abated, even as Philippine troops step up offensives to dismantle the network.
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Under Saudi Arabia's reading of Islamic Sharia, such attacks are interpreted as "banditry", which carries an automatic sentence of death followed by public display of bodies on gibbets.
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Under Saudi Arabia's reading of Islamic Sharia, such attacks are interpreted as "banditry," which carries an automatic sentence of death followed by public display of bodies on gibbets.
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The group is much feared for its banditry, piracy and kidnap-for-ransom business, with targets that include Europeans as well as seamen from Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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The United States government had grown wary after the Mexican Revolution began in 260, and relations had tensed as each side accused the other of banditry and incursions.
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Nigeria's security forces have been stretched in the last few years by an Islamist insurgency in the northeast as well as by communal violence and banditry in other areas.
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Philip Anyang a second lawyer for Ajak told Reuters although prosecutors were yet to disclose the charges he understood they would likely revolve around insurgency, violence, sabotage and banditry.
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True, "Remobe" ("Development starts with agriculture") is more upbeat with a livelier solo than the solemn "Tiega Mali" ("Today Mali suffers—killings, banditry—we are tearing each other apart").
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The Bangsamoro group said it had split with the Moro organization to continue fighting for independence, though the military has said that much of its activity is simple banditry.
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The Bangsamoro area includes part of the Philippines' second-largest island of Mindanao, and a chain of dozens of small islands to the west notorious for piracy and banditry.
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Patrick Njoroge, the central bank governor, said last month he did not expect banks to return to the "wild west kind of banditry", after the removal of the cap.
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"The conflict has become so politicized and driven by a specific narrative that the media no longer distinguish between banditry, other criminal factors and the traditional conflict," Mr. Bello said.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the mostly Christian city of Isulan on the southern island of Mindanao, a region troubled by banditry and armed rebellions.
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Kenyan media said the protests that began last week were to demand the deployment of more security forces in the area, which has long been plagued by banditry and cattle rustling.
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The violence Sunday occurred in an area known for banditry that has come under attack over the past year from suspected jihadist groups with to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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Far from endangering property rights by facilitating redistribution, inclusive democratic institutions limit the "organized banditry" of the elite-dominated state by bringing everyone inside the charmed circle of legally enforced rights.
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But experts point to how they have previously failed to work together to prevent festering militancy and banditry from worsening, plagued as they are by mistrust, dormant territorial disputes and limited capabilities.
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There, farmers have been driven off their land and forced into banditry, leaving them at the mercy of bounty killers, the most fearsome and sadistic of whom is played by Klaus Kinski.
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Ungoverned spaces of the kind we have grown familiar with in Syria and east Africa, banditry, and piracy will spread unless Europe and North America are willing to act hand in hand.
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Duterte said the southern Philippine province of Mindanao was already a hotbed of rebellion and banditry and he was worried about "looming terrorism" and an influx of extremists who could exploit the insecurity.
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Security in Mali is bolstered by a deployment of French troops and a U.N. peacekeeping mission but despite this and years of peace talks, the country faces problems of banditry, unrest and Islamist militancy.
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Banditry has plagued the northwest for years, particularly around Zamfara state and neighboring Kaduna state, although the recent spate of kidnappings and killings in the northwest has put the region in the public eye.
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The protracted seizure has worried the region about the extent the Islamic State's agenda may have gained traction in the southern Philippines, which is more used to banditry, piracy and separatism than radical Islam.
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In Kenya, however, Tullow has stopped a pilot scheme producing oil and trucking around 600 barrels a day to the coast due to security issues around cattle rustling and banditry, Chief Executive Paul McDade said.
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During his campaign he vowed to improve security but - against the backdrop of the northwest's wave of banditry, high-profile kidnappings nationwide and attacks by Islamist insurgents - he has reiterated that it remains a priority.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has suspended mining in the restive northwestern state of Zamfara, a presidential aide and the police chief said on Sunday, amid concerns that illegal miners were connected to a surge in banditry.
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Banditry has plagued the northwest for years, particularly around Zamfara state and its border with Kaduna state, though a recent spate of kidnappings and killings in the region has put the region in the public eye.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain's accusations that Moscow was behind the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in England "border on banditry", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA news agency on Sunday.
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Prime suspects in Friday's attack on Jolo island was the Abu Sayyaf, a militant group that President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to crush after decades of banditry and kidnapping, and countless attacks on civilian and military targets.
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The province is on the Philippines' second-largest island, Mindanao, parts of which have been plagued by decades of Maoist and separatist rebellions that have given rise to banditry and the influence of the Islamic State group.
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Eastern Congo has been plagued by banditry and armed insurrections for more than two decades since the fall of military ruler Mobutu Sese Seko, but the past year has seen a surge in violence around North Kivu.
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Its armed forces have their hands full with a jihadist insurgency in the north-east, banditry in the north-west and clashes between farmers and herders in the "middle belt"—all of which are far deadlier than piracy.
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A port town, Tarakan is just south of the Malaysian side of Borneo and looks out across the sea to Mindanao in the southern Philippines, a sprawling island that has been plagued by insurgencies and banditry for decades.
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Passengers will be ferried free of charge by bus on a roughly three-hour trip to Abuja along a road famous for kidnappings and banditry in a region where nomadic herdsmen and farmers engage in frequent deadly clashes.
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Abu Sayyaf has a track record of banditry, piracy and violence, while the lesser-known Maute group has proven itself a fierce battlefield opponent for the military, able to sustain air and artillery bombardments and regroup after heavy losses.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defense ministry on Saturday attacked U.S. plans to maintain and boost the American military presence in eastern Syria as "international state banditry" motivated by a desire to protect oil smugglers and not by real security concerns.
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And security forces have been stretched as they try to tackle Islamists waging a decade-long insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the northwest and clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities over dwindling arable land in central states.
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The blast took place on Basilan, the island stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group notorious for kidnapping and banditry, which was the home of the former "emir" of Islamic State in Southeast Asia, killed last year by Philippine troops.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of fighters from Chad and Sudan's Darfur region are feeding off instability in Libya, battling for rival factions, seeking to build rebel movements and engaging in banditry and arms trafficking, Geneva-based researchers said on Tuesday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Minority Muslims in the Philippines cast votes on Monday in a long-awaited referendum on autonomy, the culmination of a peace process to end decades of separatist conflict in a region plagued by poverty, banditry and Islamist militancy.
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The F.S.A. was so inchoate that people began to differentiate among units by speaking of the "good F.S.A." and the "bad F.S.A." In Saraqib, most units were well regarded, though one prompted outrage after it turned to banditry to fund itself.
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Hapilon had teamed up with the moneyed Maute clan in their stronghold of Lanao del Sur, one of the Philippines' poorest provinces, and brought with him fighters from his radical faction of Abu Sayyaf, a group better known for banditry.
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Despite continued French troop deployments, a U.N. peacekeeping mission and years of peace talks, Mali remains beset by banditry, unrest and ethnic strife and there is little prospect that Paris can withdraw its 4,000 regional counter-terrorism force in the short-term.
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Duterte, who launched a ruthless "war on drugs" after coming to power a year ago, has said the Marawi fighters were financed by drug lords in Mindanao, an island the size of South Korea that has suffered for decades from banditry and insurgencies.
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Duterte, who launched a ruthless campaign against drugs after coming to power a year ago, has said the Marawi fighters were financed by drug lords in Mindanao, an island the size of South Korea that has suffered for decades from banditry and insurgencies.
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And since stopping Chinese theft of U.S intellectual property is supposed to be one of the President's top trade objectives, he should not ease up on ZTE until it stops its high-tech banditry and starts playing by the rules in intellectual property (IP) matters.
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THOUGH parts of Asia are racked by long-running insurgencies, terrorist groups, banditry or low-level civil wars, it is striking that the continent has not suffered a full-scale war between countries since China's brief and bloody punitive invasion of Vietnam in 1979.
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President Duterte, who launched a ruthless 'war on drugs' after coming to power a year ago, has said that the Marawi fighters were financed by drug lords in Mindanao, an island the size of South Korea that has suffered for decades from banditry and insurgencies.
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The attack took place in the village of Hantoukoura near the border with Niger in the Est region, an area known for banditry that has come under attack over the past year from suspected jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State.
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Duterte has maintained martial law across the Mindanao region to curb Islamic State's influence and the decades of banditry by Abu Sayyaf, which is known for its brutality and for posting videos of captives begging for their lives, and for beheading those for whom ransom demands are not met.
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Disenfranchised settlers, driven from their homes into banditry and the mountains, are the good guys; the rapacious bounty hunters sent to kill them on behalf of a malevolent banker are the capitalist villains, depositing their victims' corpses, for which they receive cash, in the snow — frozen assets for later retrieval.
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Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which sits off the coast of West Africa along countries like Nigeria and Cameroon, cost more than $22000 million last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP), which promotes long-term solutions to maritime banditry.
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Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which sits off the coast of West Africa along countries like Nigeria and Cameroon, cost more than $700 million last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP), which promotes long-term solutions to maritime banditry.
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He traces the banditry of war and destruction, reminding us that within our age — characterized by intense yet short-lived political polarities, extreme economic disparities, and non-linear war — the present is also marked by the undocumented unsettlement of unhoused exiles, refugees, and sequestered and besieged populations, and there exists no artwork or discourse that can possibly fully express what they go through.
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On top of that, however, there is a rising volume of people forced out from their homes, particularly in the Middle East and in Africa, by the dozens of civil wars, ethnic and religious conflicts and sheer banditry in the territories the colonizers left behind in nominally sovereign, artificially concocted "states" with little prospects of stability, but enormous arsenals of weaponry supplied by their former colonial masters.
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Empire Divided sounds like it's trying to imbue its campaign map with a little more strategic life, so that it's not just a vast empty space that armies have to traverse like the original map was in Rome II. "Banditry" crops up in areas with weak infrastructure and security forces, providing a drag on things like income and food supply, which can both trigger famines as well as trigger special events.
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