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Development
Fighting The Education Boycott Imposed On English-Speaking Cameroonian Children
Ten-year-old Oben Epey has been out of school for the past five years. At his age, he has only had…
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Emergencies
Deaths Recorded As Cholera Breaks Out At Surrendered Boko Haram Camp
Several deaths have been recorded in the last two days as a cholera outbreak hit one of the camps where…
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Vestiges Of Violence
‘You Are Not Dead, Neither Are You Alive’
In the presence of dwindling funding for humanitarian operations and hunger, displaced persons have fewer alternatives than to brave the…
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Armed Violence
Bayelsa’s Boat-Riding Kidnappers And Towns Facing Abandonment
One evening in 2013, as Dauglas Augusta Apaga, 59, was preparing to close her shop at the Ogbia Town market,…
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Armed Violence
ISWAP Frees Woman Abducted 18 Months Ago
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has released a civil servant, Rahilatu Garba Musa, abducted in Feb. 2021 along…
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News
Court Gives More Time To Investigate Hostage Negotiator Involved In Kaduna Train Kidnappings
A court has granted the security services more time to investigate the man who facilitated ransom payments to kidnappers holding…
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Extremism
Media Jihad: Social Media Use Shows Islamic State’s Increasing Interest In Africa
The Islamic State has increased the number of Hausa language social media accounts, signalling their focus on local insurgencies in…
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Humanitarian Crises
Hunger In Borno’s Gubio Camp Is Worsening Disease, Pushing More Women to Survival Sex
The hunger following the stoppage of distribution of food and aid to displaced people’s camps by the Borno state government…
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Features
The Hopelessness Of One Orphaned By A Brutal Insurgency
Children bear the physical and mental scars of the horrors and brutality of Nigeria’s 13-year-old insurgency in the northeast. One…
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Armed Violence
Book Review: The Perils Of Firearms
It was from 1990 — as Richard Reid notes in his book, History of Modern Africa — that the African…
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