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Rural Communities in Nigeria’s Borno Struggle for Basic Amenities
Baba Aji Fariya, an elderly man with a weathered face and tired eyes, gazes down a sandy path leading out…
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Here Are Our Reporters’ Favourite 2024 HumAngle Stories
Almajiri Children Grow Old, Too. But What Happens When They Do? Almajiris in the Tandari community of Borno, northeastern Nigeria,…
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Prisoners and Correctional Officers Build Bridges through Chess in Nigeria’s Borno
In a rare sense of camaraderie, inmates and officers at the Maiduguri Medium Custodial Facility in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria,…
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HumAngle’s 2024 Most Read Stories
1. Maiduguri Floods: The Unfortunate Series Of Events That Led To The Breakdown Of Alau Dam In September, we reported…
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Tragedy in Borno IDP Camps: Women Suffer Child Maternal Losses Amid Healthcare Crisis
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… It was 11 p.m., and Aisha Usman and her husband had fallen…
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Forced Marriage, Rape, and the Silence of a Survivor in Nigeria’s Borno
When she was 11, Zainab’s* father forced her to marry his friend’s son in Gwoza, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. She…
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A 13-Year-Old Street Hawker’s Battle with Sexual Exploitation in Nigeria’s North East
In the scorching streets of Damaturu, Yobe State, in northeastern Nigeria, 13-year-old Sahiba Aliyu* has endured unimaginable horrors. The young…
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Adamawa State’s Education Sector is Proving Inadequate for its Young Female Students
As the warm morning sun cast its golden rays over the serene landscape of Bobda, a small village in the…
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Burnt Armoured Vehicles and Other War Relics Haunt Borno Communities
Adamu Abdulsalam is a civil servant and small-scale farmer who regularly travels from Gwoza town to Kirawa in Borno State,…
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One Man’s Struggle with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Its Severe Financial Implications
Mahmoud Idris* lives with Ankylosis Spondylitis (AS), a chronic, life-altering inflammatory disease affecting the spine and other joints. The debilitating…
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