Alamin Umar

Al’amin Umar is a climate journalist with HumAngle Media, focusing on the human cost of climate change and conflict. His reporting focuses on the complex intersections of environmental change, conflict, and sustainability efforts. A graduate in Mass Communication from the University of Maiduguri, Al’amin is also passionate about African history and culture.

Armed Violence

Alamin UmarJuly 2, 2025
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Disappearing Migration Routes Fueling Farmer-Herder Violence in Northern Nigeria

Bello Ardo still remembers how they were sent away from Dapchi, a town in Yobe State, North East Nigeria. It…
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News

Alamin UmarJune 27, 2025
1,990

HumAngle Foundation Hosts Roundtable on Local Peacebuilding and Countering Online Extremism

In a bid to deepen local peacebuilding efforts and also confront the growing threat of online extremist propaganda, HumAngle Foundation,…
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Features

Alamin UmarJune 16, 2025
1,384

Climate and Conflict Are Straining Minds in Nigeria’s North East

Kaka Ali once came close to ending his life. The 27-year-old farmer, displaced by conflict in North East Nigeria, said…
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Investigations

Alamin UmarApril 30, 2025
5,411

From Elephants to Warthogs: The Shadow Wildlife Trade Financing Boko Haram in Nigeria

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Under a tea seller’s makeshift shade in the Molai community in Borno…
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News

Alamin UmarApril 3, 2025
1,041

Escalating Violence in DR Congo Traps Millions in Desperate Conditions

The humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached new extremes, with escalating violence displacing millions, the…
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Features

Alamin UmarMarch 25, 2025
8,149

Farmers in Northeastern Nigeria Are Beating Climate, Economic Hardships with Solar Irrigation

At dawn, Hayin Gada awakens with the quiet hum of labour. A sloping stretch of farmland beyond the Numan Bridge…
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News

Alamin UmarMarch 21, 2025
1,215

HumAngle’s Managing Editor Selected for Global Fellowship

HumAngle’s Managing Editor, Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu, has been selected as a 2025 Journalism Fellow of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for…
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Investigations

Alamin UmarMarch 11, 2025
3,444

Buried Wealth, Stolen Futures: The Hidden Costs of Artisanal Mining in Borno

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… One Friday afternoon in January, I was led to the Dogon Daji…
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Featured

Alamin UmarFebruary 10, 2025
3,804

Ransom Payments Fuel Terrorism and Exploitation in Nigeria’s Vulnerable Communities

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The young man was in anguish when he spoke. He had spent…
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Armed Violence

Alamin UmarFebruary 5, 2025
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UN Urges Swift Action to Protect Women Amid Worsening Crisis in DR Congo

The humanitarian crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached alarming levels, with women and girls…
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