Emergencies
HumAngle’s Emergencies Desk focuses on emergencies such as disease outbreaks, flooding incidents, natural disasters, post-election violence, breaking reports of large-scale abductions/ killings, and so on.
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Cameroon Panics As Unidentified Disease Kills 20 In Neighbouring Equatorial Guinea
Kié-Ntem, a community in Equatorial Guinea, is under strict observation from epidemiologists worldwide. Being 270 kilometres from Cameroon’s Olamze district…
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Nigerian Authorities Alert Health Workers On Diphtheria Outbreak
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has directed health workers to “maintain a high index of suspicion”…
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Hopeless Victims, Helpless Firefighters: The Problems With Non-functional Fire Service Equipment In Osun
Having worked as a teacher for 35 years in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria, Remilekun Alimi, 75, retired to his three-bedroom apartment…
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UN Calls On Urgent Actions Against Acute Malnutrition In Nigeria, 14 other Countries
Nigeria is listed as one of the 15 countries most hit by food and nutrition crises due the humanitarian crises…
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Nigeria’s Floods Leave A Trail Of Ruin And Heartbreak — Photo Essay (III)
Abubakar Muhammad and Salihu Muhammed sat beside the road on granite rocks, what remained of materials used to refill the…
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Nigeria’s Floods Leave A Trail Of Ruin And Heartbreak — Photo Essay (II)
One after another, passengers alighted from their cars. Two men in their mid-twenties, Mohammed and Tasihu, emerged from a boat…
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Nigeria’s Floods Leave A Trail Of Ruin And Heartbreak — Photo Essay (I)
Young Aliyu Abubakar wore his beret like a union leader and folded his trousers above his knees to keep them…
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Lake Chad: Flood Waters Inundate Isolated Nigerian Community
Torrential rain has caused the Komadougou Yobe river to overflow its banks and pour into temporary shelters housing returning displaced…
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Ebola: Over 50 Dead In Uganda
The Ebola virus has killed 51 people, including six health workers in Uganda. The toll has risen by 80 percent…
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Flood Ravages Homes, Worsens Food Insecurity In Sokoto Communities
When Muhammadu Muktari, 40, went out to see his mother, the heavy downpour that lasted for over 12 hours in…
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