Significant1980 – 1985 · 5 years

Maitatsine Riots

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Kano · Maiduguri · Yola

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Series of millenarian uprisings in northern Nigeria under Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine that killed thousands.

Belligerents2

Nigeria
Maitatsine movement

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Maitatsine Riots (1980 – 1985). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/maitatsine-riots · Sources & methodology