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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Inside Nigeria’s Stinking And Dilapidated Police Barracks
“I no longer believe in the police force,” said Stephen Amos, an inspector who has served his country for over…
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Fire Guts Another Market In Maiduguri
Another incident of fire disaster occurred at a significant market in Maiduguri, Borno state. The fire, at about 3 p.m.…
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Grieving Traders Count Their Losses At Maiduguri Market Destroyed By Fire
“Nothing was spared in my shop – everything went down in the ashes,” said Mohammed Alibe, who owns a general…
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Borno Market: Security Agents Deployed To Contain Unrest After Fire
Armed security comprising the police and military have been deployed around the Monday market in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, as an…
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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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