The phrase "armed banditry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe criminal activities involving armed robbery or theft, typically in a violent or threatening manner.
Example: "The region has been plagued by armed banditry, making it unsafe for travelers and locals alike."
Alternatives: "armed robbery" or "violent theft".
Armed banditry was on the increase in the northwest.
If conditions do not improve, UNITA's leaders say their men will be forced to desert the camps and revert to armed banditry to survive.
At a rally in El Fasher on April 12 , 2003 President Bashir downplayed the rebellion, calling it "acts of armed banditry".
Mr. Salema, a Mozambican who saw his own country consumed by civil war, now sees boys in the Solomons, half a world away, tempted into ethnic strife and plain armed banditry when readily available guns combine with hard times.
They are blamed by southern black Malians for the killing – Islamic terror, clan feuding and armed banditry – that began in 2012 and has brought the country to its knees.
"In general, the police only kill habitual offenders and criminals who have committed heinous crimes such as rape, armed banditry, multiple murders, kidnapping," an unnamed officer was reported as saying.
In this article, we have dealt with the impact of post-independence armed insurgency, counter-insurgency and the post-shifta banditry on the pastoral economy of the Waso Borana.
Danger has also curtailed emergency aid programs, with banditry and simmering feuds between armed groups.
However, in recent years, due to the proliferation of modern small arms, commercialisation of livestock raiding, dispute over land tenure rights, banditry and predation, the cultural practice has become a widespread, sophisticated, more violent, and destructive activity among pastoral communities in northern Kenya (Mkutu 2008; Kumssa et al. 2009; Leff 2009; Mahmoud 2011; Njiru 2012; Omolo 2010).
After a while, they took up arms and became a constant danger to peace, through acts of banditry.
The proliferation of small arms had transformed the conflict from a regional war to local banditry after the emergence of Somali bandits involved in organised poaching, mainly elephants for their ivory (Daleo 1979).
