Solutions
HumAngle’s Solutions Desk focuses on emerging responses to societal problems and what individuals, communities, and institutions are doing to help those in need.
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Chess Is Giving Displaced Children Hope in Adamawa IDP Camps
A group of children gather on a Saturday morning in front of a three-block classroom at the Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a…
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Grassroots School Turns the Tide Against Crime in Lagos’s Floating Slum
Morning light glints off the water as children in crisp uniforms, polished sandals, and neatly packed schoolbags paddle across the…
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Taraba Communities Are Choosing Words Over Weapons
The echoes of gunfire still haunt Abdullahi Wakili. What he remembers most, however, is the silence that followed — the…
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Reformed Gangs Are Becoming the Guardians of Peace in Maiduguri
Ngomari Costine has a terrible reputation. The area, in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, is filled with delinquent youth popularly referred to…
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A Text Message Is the Bridge Between Peace and Violence in Cross River
On a Sunday evening in March this year, Akiba Ekpeyong, a community leader in Akpap-Okoyong, received a text message that…
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The Market Women Bridging Faith Divides In Adamawa State
In November 2024, an empty field suddenly turned into a bustling scene. Women streamed in carrying baskets of tomatoes, while…
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Peace Initiative Struggles to End Cross River’s Deadly Land Dispute
It was a sombre Thursday afternoon in Alesi, a community in Ikom Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State,…
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The Missing Horseman of Adamawa
Auwalu Saidu remembers his elder brother, Babayo, with robes and horses. The kind worn and ridden by royalty in northeastern…
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Plateau Farmers Turn to Land Documents to Reclaim Their Fields Amid Violence
Sarah Ishaya doesn’t seem to remember the day the attackers came in 2021, but what she cannot forget is how…
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A Displaced Nigerian Teenager’s Search for Home and Education
She was just seven years old when they were displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.…
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