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Gender & SGBV
Women Fleeing Conflict In Cameroon Being Tricked Into Sex Work
In May 2018, Gisela, 28, left her home in Mbaingo in Cameroon’s northwestern region to a town she thought could…
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Features
Friends Crowdsourced A Loan For His Ransom. Now He Can’t Pay Back
Weeks after his kidnap and subsequent release by terrorists, Muhammadu Lauwali, 51, still does not feel free in his own…
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Solutions
Drones Are Delivering Medical Supplies To Hard-To-Reach Clinics In Nigeria
Rebecca John went into labour in the dead of night. This was not supposed to be unusual at facilities like…
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News
Man Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Raping Minor In Kaduna
A man, Usman Shehu Bashir, has been sentenced to death in Zaria, Northwest Nigeria for raping to death a two-year-old…
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Human Rights
Amnesty International Accuses Cameroon Military Of Rape During Operations
Amnesty International (AI) has accused cameroonian soldiers of rampant atrocities including rape of at least 15 women at the peak…
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Armed Violence
Cameroon Separatists Kidnap Students For Sitting For Public Exams
Parents whose children took official national examinations in the crisis-hit northwest of Cameroon have raised an alarm over a series…
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Gender & SGBV
Displaced Women In Nigeria’s Katsina Are Starving, And They May Never Get Aid
The heat from the sun could be felt in the bones. Katsina city is hot, so hot that it feels…
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Armed Violence
Extrajudicial Killings By Military In Cameroon Grow As Activists Decry It
Women in the Belo subdivision of the northwestern part of Cameroon say they have been burying young boys executed by…
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Extremism
The Dark World Of Jihadist Propaganda Channels On Telegram
Following the crackdown on Ansaru jihadist accounts on Facebook and WhatsApp in Feb. 2023, the group has shifted its operations…
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Gender & SGBV
Surviving Financial Abuse In A Traditional Marriage
When Rashida Ibrahim’s* brother came back home with a lost phone he picked up on the streets of Kaduna in…
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