Analysis: The Lord's Resistance Army, Niger Delta Avengers

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The Lord’s Resistance Army, Niger-Delta avengers and the M23 rebels are in different locations in Africa, contributes to the rising fear in each of their government. The hypothesis of this paper is if the rebel groups in their country control the natural resources, then the government doesn’t respond to any other their attacks against innocent civilians.The government will be more concerned about the natural resources of the country because of its improvements to the wealth of the state. The government will not respond to their attacks against innocent civilians because the areas where rebel groups control are among the poor people, which is not as seen a priority for the countries.
In order to test this hypothesis, a qualitative approach

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