Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz is Director of the IMF’s Statistics Department. Robert Heath, Andrew Kitili, and Alfredo Leone of the IMF’s Statistics Department assisted in the preparation of this article.

Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi has described the threat by bandits’ leader, Bello Turji to destroy Zamfara State if his brother, Baka Burgi is not released before the end of December this year as a ...