Market closures driven by years of terrorism have hollowed out entire local economies in Katsina and Zamfara, in northwestern Nigeria. We spoke to traders and residents who have since fled the affected communities to safer locations.
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A HumAngle investigation has uncovered a surge in military misfires propelled by poorly trained local operators and a lack of due diligence and accountability across the war theatres in Sub-Saharan Africa, where TB2 drones are at play.
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A year-long investigation by HumAngle has uncovered the cost of negligence and faulty intelligence in the military’s combat drone operations and the government’s lack of accountability.
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Sick people and those with disabilities in Nigeria navigate an extra layer of obstacles due to the lack of inclusion, accommodations, and an accessible environment as a result of poor awareness, inadequate healthcare systems, legal support and inclusive structures.
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When a gold deposit was found while digging a pit in an agricultural community in Abuja, locals flocked in to claim their share, disrupting farming activities.
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For many artisanal miners in Plateau State, Nigeria, the search for a livelihood now comes with the constant risk of armed attack, as violence spreads across the state’s mineral-rich communities.
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Twenty-year-old Ahmadu Adamu has waited four years to vote. He still cannot. He lives in Malkhohi displacement camp in Yola South, Adamawa State, in northeastern Nigeria, where he has spent nearly half of his life after fleeing his home in Madagali, a local government bordering Borno State and Cameroon, in 2015 at the age of […]
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It was at 11:21 a.m. on Sunday, June 21, that things started to fall apart. Aliyu Muhammad was in the Malali area, Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria, working underneath a car when he missed a call from his wife. When he called back, someone else answered and asked him if he knew the owner of the phone. […]
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Telegram has removed accounts linked to a Hausa-language network that openly sold child sexual abuse material across northern Nigeria, following an inquiry by HumAngle, but the platform has not explained how the network survived repeated suspensions over three months before our investigation was published. In an email response to HumAngle, a Telegram spokesperson confirmed that […]
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Fatima ‘Teema’ Mahmud uploaded a short clip on her Telegram Status that morning; it showed a leaked intimate video involving individuals in northern Nigeria. The time was 8:13 a.m.; minutes later, she uploaded another one and another. By midday, she had uploaded dozens of similar pieces of content. By evening, there were hundreds. Some of […]
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For nearly two decades, Nigeria fought Boko Haram and its offshoots, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Ansaru, largely with bombs, bullets, and casualties announced in press briefings. However, the slow process of delivering justice through prosecution was the part of the counterterrorism machine that never quite got built properly. Thousands of suspects, […]
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There is almost no landscape across the West African Sahel that cannot be accessed from the back of a motorcycle. That is why terrorists operating in the region prize them so highly. In various terror operations, motorcycles are used not only as vehicles, but as weapons, and even as a form of currency. In April, […]
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