Over 50 villagers, mostly women, children, and elderly people, have been abducted in a recent wave of terrorist attacks in Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria, prompting outrage from residents who say government security forces have once again failed to protect them. The attacks, which took place from the night of Saturday, April 5, through to Sunday, […]
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The young man was in anguish when he spoke. He had spent 60 days in captivity, blindfolded and in chains. Tortured, starved, and in despair, he had been held in a forest between Zamfara and Katsina States in northwestern Nigeria. He was abducted on his way home from work. The terrorists whisked him and his […]
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The heat from the sun could be felt in the bones. Katsina city is hot, so hot that it feels like the town is sitting on a pot of boiling liquid. But on the left side of Babbar Ruga road are women clad in hijabs, perching beneath trees that do not provide enough protection from […]
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Hassana and Hussaina are turning two soon. They are playing around their mother’s legs as she speaks about being displaced and how her daughters have been malnourished. They were six months old in their mother’s belly when she and her family fled from Batagarawa Local Government Area of Katsina, a state in northwestern Nigeria, due […]
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Mansur Garba, 22, says the reason he is still alive is a herbal substance that he believes gives him immunity from bullets. Like many vigilantes and rural dwellers in Wanzamai, he believes the charmed concoction he takes prevents bullets from piercing his body. Every time the village where he lives was attacked, he was glad […]
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As the malnutrition crisis continues to unfold to catastrophic levels in Northwest Nigeria, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is calling on humanitarian organisations to take every possible action to scale up intervention in the region. The international humanitarian organisation, during a Twitter space discussion held on Tuesday, Sept. 27, said they had witnessed a 60 per […]
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the State Ministry of Health in Katsina, Northwest Nigeria, has made more facilities available to accommodate malnourished children in the state. The international humanitarian organisation disclosed this in a press release made available to HumAngle on Monday, Aug. 15. The MSF says that it achieved the expansion through […]
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Terrorists operating in various parts of Northwest Nigeria have been threatening to cut power lines that supply electricity to various states of the sub-region, particularly Kano and Katsina, just as Non-State Armed Groups have done in the Northeast. According to a source within Nigeria’s Ministry of Power, the terrorists have cut off access to some […]
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Two parish priests and three others kidnapped in the rectory of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, in Katsina State’s Kafur Local Government Area (LGA), Northwest Nigeria, on May 25, 2022, have been released. Rev. Fr Christopher Omotosho, Director of Social Communications for the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, confirmed the development in a statement issued […]
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Terrorists riding on more than 200 motorcycles stormed a village bordering Zamfara and Katsina states in Northwest Nigeria and attacked the position of the Nigeria Customs Service. They killed at least eight persons in the attack that happened at midnight, Sunday, May 29. According to an eyewitness, the terrorists also killed a bus driver along […]
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Conflict in Northwest Nigeria displaced some 1,912 people between May 2 and 8, 2022, according to the latest figure by the United Nations’ Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM). According to the DTM, armed groups carried out a series of attacks in two Northwest states — Zamfara and Katsina, burning down houses and killing up to 61 […]
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Extreme drought, poor harvests, and displacement are causing starvation and malnutrition that threaten children’s survival in the Maradi, South-central Niger Republic and Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria. Hunger is at its extreme level in Niger where an estimated 14.7 million people in a 25.1 million population mainly live on arable land as climate vulnerability worsens food […]
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