Ahmad Salkida

Ahmad Salkida is a renowned investigative reporter with over 23 years experience in conflict and development reporting. He is regarded as one of the best knowledge experts on the decade-long Boko Haram insurgency. He has done groundbreaking reporting on the multiple conflict situations in the Lake Chad region, a territory overshadowed by terrorism and famine.

Humanitarian Voices

Ahmad SalkidaAugust 22, 2023
197

In The Absence Of Aid

#HumanitarianVoices, we highlight the experiences of displaced women in Borno, Nigeria, in the absence of aid. Just how important is…
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Humanitarian Voices

Ahmad SalkidaAugust 22, 2023
200

Defining The Vulnerable

The first episode of our new podcast #HumanitarianVoices is live today! In it, our CEO (@A_Salkida) sits with a member…
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News

Ahmad SalkidaSeptember 6, 2021
4,476

Significance Of September 6: From Nigerian Army Declaring Me Wanted To Shaping HumAngle

On Sept. 6, five years ago, I landed in Abuja on an Emirates flight from the UAE after the Nigerian…
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News

Ahmad SalkidaJune 5, 2021
15,299

ISWAP Confirms Shekau’s Death, Says Its Fighters Were Following ISIS Orders

The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) has confirmed that former Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau blew himself up after…
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Analyses

Ahmad SalkidaMay 21, 2021
11,442

What Shekau’s Death Means For Security In Nigeria, Lake Chad

The days-long siege by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters on one of the locations where Abubakar Shekau, leader…
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Magazine

Obiora ChukwumbaAhmad SalkidaMarch 2, 2021
507

The HumAngle Journey: Passing Through The Eye Of The Needle

At 3.10 pm on March 3, 2020, we uploaded the first content on the HumAngle domain portal announcing the birth…
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Features

Ahmad SalkidaOctober 31, 2020
1,136

Mobs Overrun Streets, After Mass Lynching Of Police Officers In Nigeria

The two-week epic youth-led protests against police brutality that recently raged across Nigeria have morphed into cruel acts of aggression…
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Features

Ahmad SalkidaSeptember 27, 2020
7,618

Ex-Boko Haram Fighters, Eluding Detection, Start A New Life In Kaduna, Kano, And Abuja

He was in the senior commanding cadre among the revered elite jihadist corps in the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram.…
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Features

Ahmad SalkidaSeptember 22, 2020
4,005

#BokoHaram Roadblocks, Ambushes In Borno Claiming Prime Targets

On Sunday, September 20, insurgents mounted a roadblock on the road leading to Maiduguri from Monguno town, in Monguno Local…
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Features

Ahmad SalkidaJuly 12, 2020
10,490

Nigeria’s Terror King, Shekau, Connects East, West And Centre In A Puzzling Agenda

Scorned and underrated, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lidda’awatu Wal-Jihad (JAS), otherwise known as Boko Haram is…
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