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Features
Families Of Fallen Zamfara Community Guards Remain Haunted By Loss
Residents scampered for their lives when terrorists invaded the Tsafe area of Zamfara on the evening of March 24, 2024.…
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News
They Were Sacked For Informing On Terrorists. Now They Can’t Return Home
More than two months after motorcycle-riding terrorists burnt down villages in the Isa area of Sokoto, North West Nigeria, several…
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Armed Violence
No Simple Way Home: Displaced Sokoto Residents Driven To Despair And Frustration
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Tucked behind a Dogonyaro tree at the centre of the Mai Tandu…
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Features
‘Yan Daba: The Local Gangs Terrorising Kano Neighbourhoods
A blow to the back, a stab in the face, and then … darkness, a total void with deafening silence. …
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Human Rights
The Fight Against Boko Haram Leaves A Trail Of Ruin And Ashes
Zara Goni remembers. It was a Wednesday in June 2014, around 8 a.m. Her people had scuttled indoors when they…
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Armed Violence
Residents Of Sokoto Village In Agonising Wait After Almajiri Children’s Abduction
It was late Saturday evening, a little after 5 p.m. Umaru Tsoho, 57, sat on a broken piece of mudbrick,…
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Armed Violence
Kuriga: The Many Attacks That Culminated Into A Mass Abduction In A Kaduna Community
The door-to-door toting of guns in Kuriga started as far back as 2011. “We have had at least 15 attacks,”…
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Displacement & Migration
When IDPs Vote: Conflict Chipping Away At Political Freedom Where It Matters Most
On the eve of Nigeria’s last presidential election, around 4 p.m., Ibrahim Hassan wore one of his finest clothes, grabbed…
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Features
What Happens To The Abducted And Forgotten?
She was standing by a stove outside her captor’s tent, holding a bowl from which she was supposed to fry…
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Features
When Humanitarian Aid Trickles To A Drop
It was 12:22 p.m., and Sahura Abdullahi was scraping the bark of Bishiryar Aduwa, a tree in front of the…
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