Zara Goni remembers. It was a Wednesday in June 2014, around 8 a.m. Her people had scuttled indoors when they heard trucks pulling closer as the soldiers inside them launched bullets in different directions. The gunshots continued for a long time. The villagers heard something else, too: the cracking sound of things burning. Outside, the […]
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No fewer than 20 farmers and a health worker were seized yesterday, Nov. 10 at a roadblock set up by terrorists in Bukuyum Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State, North West Nigeria. The incident took place at about 2:30 p.m. at an area known as the Walale River, near Yargalma village. Here, terrorists had […]
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“With zero knowledge of where they were heading, I too hauled myself into the big truck that came to help people escape from Pulka, and we did not stop travelling until we reached Kano,” recalled Aliyu Mohammed, a 15-year-old orphan and an internally displaced person in Borno state. “Life was hard in Kano because everyone […]
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Last year, three friends — Mohammad Alkali, Habib Abakar, and Ali Mohammad — raised ₦1.3 million (about $1,700) to venture into farming in Borno State of Nigeria’s North East. They had high expectations, they were told farming was a lucrative business. It wasn’t until they had invested the money however, that Muhammad and his friends […]
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