Borno
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Vestiges Of Violence
A Mother Awaits the News of Her Abducted Children
VOV 135: A Mother Awaits the News of Her Abducted | RSS.com It is Ramadan, and Bintu Suleiman, a 55-year-old…
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Investigations
The Making of the Boko Haram Army
On a hauntingly cold night in 2008, a 28-year-old impressionable fan of Mohammed Yusuf sat in the latter’s compound in…
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Featured
Women in Maiduguri Turn Waste into Cooking Fuel
September 2024 came with water. It moved through Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s North East, in fast, stubborn currents, destroying homes and…
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Investigations
Ideology, Blood, and War: Rethinking the Origins of Boko Haram
Before he became a fugitive preacher, during which time security officials learned to mutter his name with a foreboding weight,…
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Podcast
A Midwife in Captivity
VOV 134: A Midwife in Captivity | RSS.com Adisu Abba is a 45-year-old widow and the mother of five children.…
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Analyses
Do Terror Attacks in Nigeria Spike During Ramadan? Here’s What We Know
As Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, and reflection, entered its second week, specifically on March 5, terrorists…
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Features
Three Bomb Blasts Hit Maiduguri. Survivors Recall a Night of Panic
Umar Muhammad Mustapha had just stepped out of the mosque when he heard someone say an explosion had gone off…
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Armed Violence
Recent Terror Attacks in Borno Have Targeted Military Bases and Weapons
“If they rebuild and you return, we will kill you.” That was the threat Abubakar Dalwa received before fleeing to…
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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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Podcast
Everything Was Burned
VOV 132: Everything Was Burned | RSS.com Gina Bashir is a 46-year-old farmer from Askira Uba, in Borno, northeastern Nigeria.…
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