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Analysis, Disinformation
Kainji Lake and the Dangerous Redrawing of Nigeria’s Security Map
The routine of gently but skillfully pushing wooden canoes into the water body at the shores of Kainji Lake each…
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Featured
Displaced Children in Nigeria’s Capital Dream of Education
Ali Juwon’s future shattered at the same time his father’s leg did. The year was 2012, and the 9-year-old, hand…
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Armed Violence
An Illicit Gold Economy is Pushing Desperate Nigerians into Southern Algeria
Whenever Abdul Mahmud speaks about the journey from Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, to southern Algeria, in North Africa, his voice…
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Features
Nigerian Women’s Struggle Against Sexual Coercion
“I have mental fortitude, I am physically stronger, but I cannot undo what was done to me. Why do they…
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Analyses
Kwara Massacre of 170 Despite Warning Raises Questions About Nigeria’s Security Intelligence
On Feb. 3, Nigeria witnessed one of its deadliest rural attacks in recent memory. Terrorists stormed Woro and Nuku villages…
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News
Nigerian Refugees in Cameroon Repatriated Years After Boko Haram Displacement
At least 297 Nigerian refugees have voluntarily left the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon’s Far North region to return to…
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Armed Violence
Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Terrorists Mark Armed Forces Day Amid Low Morale
Ali Salim* is a gunner and a member of a special force combating terrorists in Kaduna State, one of the…
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Investigations
The Performative US Airstrike That May Have Killed No Terrorists in Nigeria
In the evening, moments before the United States’ aerial operation in northwestern Nigeria, a helicopter hovered above the perimeters of…
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Armed Violence
Mass Displacement Looms in Northwest Nigeria Following US Airstrikes, Misinformation
When the explosive devices from the US airstrike landed in Birkini, a satellite village in Jabo town, Sokoto, North West…
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Armed Violence
The US Launched an Airstrike in Northwestern Nigeria. Here’s How it Went
A few locals gathered in an open area around 10 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 25, when they saw a projectile…
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