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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (centre) during a press conference at the Seoul Global Centre in South Korea, on May 13, 2026. [AFP]
The UN rights chief on Wednesday demanded independent investigations into reports that separate airstrikes by the Nigerian and Chadian armies in northern Nigeria killed dozens of civilians.
The Nigerian military and the "bandit" gangs it is fighting killed around 100 civilians on Sunday in one of the bloodiest single days of the country's conflict against armed groups, sources across the country told AFP.
Amnesty International's Nigeria chapter said that Nigerian military airstrikes on a crowded market in the northwestern Zamfara state, reportedly controlled by criminal gangs, had killed "at least 100 civilians".
