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Features
In Nigeria’s Borno State, The Displaced Trade Shelter for Life
At the Muna Kumburi camp along Dikwa Road in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, displaced families are taking desperate steps to survive. …
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Armed Violence
Weaponised Identity: From Dreadlocks to Dialects, How Profiling Threatens Lives in Nigeria
“I wear a niqab and a full jilbab. People often tell me that I am oppressed,” says Hajja Gana, a…
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News
At Least 8 Dead and Many Missing in Devastating Yola Flood in Nigeria
Heavy rains have swept through Yola, the Adamawa State capital in northeastern Nigeria, causing a devastating flood that residents have…
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Analyses
Nigeria’s Mental Health Act and the Struggle for Implementation
A lunatic. An idiot. A person of unsound mind. These three phrases were used in The Nigerian Lunacy Ordinance of…
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News
Civilians Caught in Crossfire as Rebel Attacks Surge in DR Congo
Scores of civilians were killed during fierce confrontations between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and the Convention pour…
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Humanitarian Crises
Conflicting Warnings Issued as Overfilled Alau Dam Releases Water, Sparks Panic
Residents of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, North East Nigeria, who live near the Alau Dam and its downstream channel,…
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Armed Violence
UN Forces Condemn Resurgence of Violence in Eastern DRC
The United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) has condemned the recent surge in violence…
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Featured
Aid Draught, Stolen Supplements: The Child Malnutrition Crisis in Nigeria’s Adamawa State
It is July 18, around 7 a.m., and a group of women carrying malnourished children are gathered at the primary…
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Features
The Adamawa Children Leaving School for Labour
*Alfred Silas just turned 18. He has been in commercial farming for five years. Working on people’s farms for daily…
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Features
When Herding Means Death: Northwest Nigeria’s Farmers Trapped Between Fight and Flight
Late one fateful evening, Malam Muhammadu Sodangi of Tuwon Tsoro watched helplessly as armed raiders made off with the cattle,…
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