Investigations
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Nairobi’s Sex Trafficking Gangs And The Girls On The Receiving End
It’s Friday noon, and Ebla Ali wades through a muddy lane in Eastleigh, a predominantly Somali community in the suburbs…
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The Nigerian Villages’ Long Wait For Justice Against Oil Giant Shell
At a quarter past 8 a.m. one day in April this year, Cecilia Agbem and other farmers set out for…
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Cheap Drugs, Delays Keep Kaduna’s Health Insurance Beneficiaries Dissatisfied
Emmanuel (surname withheld) was angry. Here he was at the hospital pharmacy to collect his prescribed medication, only to be…
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With 8000 CFA Bribe, Nigerian Smugglers Are Bypassing ECOWAS’ Border Crackdown In Niger
Jibya, a bustling town bordering the Niger Republic in Nigeria’s Katsina State is silent; rows of cargo trucks wait quietly…
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Soldiers Making Millions From Unlawfully Seized Farmlands In Nigeria’s North East
Yidhe Raymond fled her home in Pulka after a terror attack in 2014 that took her husband’s life. She also…
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Finding Nigeria’s Forgotten Mass Graves Through Satellite Data
There are more than 25,000 missing people in Nigeria, more than in any other country on the African continent. Many…
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Into The Abyss Of Deaths, Burials, And Missing People In Nigeria’s War On Terror
Where must this story begin? That Saturday morning in March 2013, when Adamu Sa’adu set out for his tailoring shop…
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Nigerian Resettled Community Still Crossing To Cameroon For Basic Amenities One Year After
Falmata Mala was six months pregnant when the news she had been waiting so long for arrived. The place she…
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Gold, Livestock And Bikes: How Abductees Paid Ransoms During Nigeria’s Cash Crunch
First, he froze in terror, then he blacked out. Aliyu Sani, 45, woke up in a filthy camp in the…
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Highway Extortion By Security Agents In Borno Gulping Millions Yearly, Affecting Lives
The whirring from a vulcaniser at the Bama motor park in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, could hardly be ignored. Passengers gradually…
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