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Armed Violence
Tunisian Soldiers To Join UN Mission In Central African Republic
A contingent of 450 Tunisian soldiers have gone to the Central African Republic, where they will join the United Nations…
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Armed Violence
At Least 30 Killed In New Clashes In Kwamouth, DR Congo
At least 31 people were killed in clashes between the Teke and Yaka ethnic groups on Tuesday Sept 13 in…
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Development
Communities Turned Into Sewage Swamps
Johan Lotter and his parents moved into numbers 2 and 2A Johann Street in Standerton 15 years ago, planning to…
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Humanitarian Crises
Halted Inheritances, Marriages … Lives On Hold Due To Nigeria’s Disappearances
With the disappearance of her sister, Mairam Modu says she lost more than a sibling. She also lost a mother…
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Humanitarian Crises
Hunger In Borno’s Gubio Camp Is Worsening Disease, Pushing More Women to Survival Sex
The hunger following the stoppage of distribution of food and aid to displaced people’s camps by the Borno state government…
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Armed Violence
Amid Terror: Playing ‘Hide And Seek’ With Terrorists In North-central Nigeria
It is one thing to live in terror and completely another to know that you are surrounded by it. This…
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Features
The Hopelessness Of One Orphaned By A Brutal Insurgency
Children bear the physical and mental scars of the horrors and brutality of Nigeria’s 13-year-old insurgency in the northeast. One…
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Armed Violence
Book Review: The Perils Of Firearms
It was from 1990 — as Richard Reid notes in his book, History of Modern Africa — that the African…
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Emergencies
Many Lives Lost As Days Of Rainfall Floods Maiduguri
Residents of Gwange, a crowded neighbourhood of Maiduguri Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, did not sleep all through Friday night as…
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Armed Violence
Police Apprehend Local Terror Leader In Northwest Nigeria
Operatives of the Zamfara State Police Command have arrested one Isiyaku Babangida, a wanted terrorist, during the raid of a…
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