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Nigeria seeks binding global rules on autonomous weapons, warns of terror threat

2026-10-17T17:50:17.000Z

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The Federal Government has called for legally binding international rules governing autonomous weapons, warning that increasingly affordable military technologies could enable terrorist organisations to acquire sophisticated weapons and threaten international peace and security.

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