Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- Recorded attacks against civilians declined slightly across seven northern Nigerian states in the six months after the 2023 presidential election, but estimated fatalities associated with those attacks increased, an analysis of conflict records by PREMIUM TIMES has found.

Data supplied by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) project show that incidents classified as violence against civilians fell from 401 in the six months before the 2023 election to 383 afterwards, a decline of 4.5 per cent. Estimated fatalities, however, rose from 549 to 759, an increase of 38.3 per cent.

Most of the net increase in estimated fatalities was concentrated in Benue, where the figure rose from 111 before the election to 31...