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Featured
Broken, Shaped by War: The Scavenging Children of Borno
It’s 1:00 p.m., and the sun in Maiduguri, North East Nigeria, scorches without mercy – too hot to stand still…
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News
Boko Haram Attacks Kirawa, Kills At Least 4, Displaces Hundreds
Boko Haram launched a four-hour assault on Kirawa, a border community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, northeastern…
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Features
Yola Residents Struggle To Rebuild After Floods
In the early hours of Sunday, July 27, as most of Yola South slept, a violent flood tore through the…
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Climate Change
Climate Migrants: The Rural Farmers Chased Into Abuja by Droughts
Aminu Ishaku now earns a living as a commercial motorcyclist in Abuja. His family has five hectares of land in…
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Features
Losses, Lamentations as Drought Ravages Farming Communities in Taraba
Felix Yupenda depends entirely on his harvests to sustain his family. He is a local farmer in Wukari, Taraba State,…
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Extremism
Heaven by Road: Pastor Abraham’s Botched Rapture Could Still End Tragically
That year, the world seemed cursed. Naira was crashing against the dollar, and the price of a 50 kg bag…
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Humanitarian Crises
Conflicting Warnings Issued as Overfilled Alau Dam Releases Water, Sparks Panic
Residents of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, North East Nigeria, who live near the Alau Dam and its downstream channel,…
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Features
The Adamawa Children Leaving School for Labour
*Alfred Silas just turned 18. He has been in commercial farming for five years. Working on people’s farms for daily…
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Extremism
Maitatsine: The Preacher of Fire (1927 – 1980)
It begins with the memory of smoke. Hadiza Yahaya, now in her late 70s, folds her shawl over her shoulders…
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Featured
Bound by Blood, Fighting to Death: The Cousin Tribes of Adamawa
When 55-year-old Muhammad Buba, a teacher at Boshkiri Primary School, left home on July 2, family and friends had no…
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