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Development
A Problematic Drainage Project Increases Flood Risk To A Community In Northeast Nigeria
“Is this a wall or drainage? I don’t know” said Yafati Ali. Yafati Ali was reacting to a drainage and…
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News
The Struggles Of Maiduguri’s ‘Unknown’ IDPs
Zainab Abubakar, a 55-year-old divorcee, cannot access humanitarian support from the Borno State government for one major reason – she…
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Emergencies
Authorities In Borno Seek External Help As Cholera Kills Over 50 Persons
At least 43 persons have died in recent weeks as cholera outbreak ravages eight communities in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria,…
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Displacement & Migration
The Women Whose Husbands Were Arrested and ‘Disappeared’
Yagana Kamsulum has not stopped hoping her husband will return to her, three years after he disappeared. Modu Kamsulum was…
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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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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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Humanitarian Crises
Halted Inheritances, Marriages … Lives On Hold Due To Nigeria’s Disappearances
With the disappearance of her sister, Mairam Modu says she lost more than a sibling. She also lost a mother…
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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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Emergencies
Many Lives Lost As Days Of Rainfall Floods Maiduguri
Residents of Gwange, a crowded neighbourhood of Maiduguri Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, did not sleep all through Friday night as…
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