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‘Hello, My Love’: Giwa Barracks Detainees Finally Allowed To Make Phone Calls
“Hello,” a voice called out from the other side. The phone number was strange. The voice was familiar. But it…
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Boko Haram: Ex-Detainee Recounts Horrific Torture, Deaths In Giwa Barracks
Apart from those who stood guard over the city, almost everyone had retired to their beds as the sky laid…
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Borno Women Demand Release Of Detained Relatives 8 Years After Giwa Barracks Attack
Hundreds of women, mostly aged mothers and wives, on Wednesday, March 14, called on the Nigerian gov’t and its military…
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Vestiges Of Violence
They Said They’d Teach Him A Trade, Took Him To Giwa Barracks
In Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, the Nigerian army arrested thousands of people between 2015 and 2016, in their counterinsurgency attempts…
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Surviving Hell (4): They Said They’d Teach Him A Trade, Took Him To Giwa Barracks
When the soldiers came to them at the displacement camp, they did not tell them they were being arrested or…
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Exclusive: Over 2,500 People Still Detained At Giwa Barracks, 67 With Tuberculosis
Despite the recent release of hundreds of people, there are still over 2,500 detainees at Giwa barracks, a military detention…
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Family Of Traumatised Ex-Giwa Barracks Detainee Say Help Yet To Come From Authorities
Bana Usman has not remained the same since his five-year ordeal at Giwa Barracks, a military detention centre in Maiduguri,…
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Relatively Few Women Have Been Detained At Giwa Barracks. Ya’ana Was There Twice.
“Hajja Ya’ana has come!” Unlike the other people she entered with, Ya’ana Kaumi*, 42, was not a strange face to…
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Seven Years On, Blood From Giwa Barracks Massacre Yet To Dry
When her young boy was picked up by the Nigerian military nearly a decade ago, Ya Amsa Fannami was advised…
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Military Officers Linked To #GiwaBarrackMassacre Promoted
Hundreds of detainees were extrajudicially killed after a security breach on March 14, 2014, at a detention facility in the…
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