On a warm afternoon in April 2023, Audu Bala, a 50-year-old commercial driver, gripped the steering wheel of his car tightly while driving from Maiduguri to Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State in northeastern Nigeria. His vehicle, packed with passengers, veered into a collision while he swerved to avoid a pothole on the partially completed […]
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Baba Aji Fariya, an elderly man with a weathered face and tired eyes, gazes down a sandy path leading out of his village, Fariya, in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. His expression is heavy, mirroring the struggles of his community. Over the last two decades, Fariya has grown from a small settlement to a community of […]
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Abubakar Sani wore a blank expression that concealed his mood and made it difficult to discern the stories his eyes could tell. Residing in Gwashi, a village in Bukkuyum Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State, he has witnessed the evolution of terror activities by terrorists currently ravaging Nigeria’s Northwest. At first, he said, the […]
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It was 11 p.m., and Aisha Usman and her husband had fallen into a deep sleep in a tent at the El-Miskin camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) on the shores of Jere Local Government Area in Borno, northeastern Nigeria. She suddenly woke up clutching her stomach, crying heavily. She was bleeding profusely. Her husband […]
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When she was 11, Zainab’s* father forced her to marry his friend’s son in Gwoza, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. She suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. “After marriage, I suffered physical violence and assault from my husband whenever we disagreed,” she recounted. “After the first day we became […]
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In the scorching streets of Damaturu, Yobe State, in northeastern Nigeria, 13-year-old Sahiba Aliyu* has endured unimaginable horrors. The young groundnut hawker’s life took a devastating turn when she fell prey to the manipulative tactics of Adamu*, a man who claimed to be her father’s friend. “The first time, he asked me to take my […]
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HumAngle, Africa’s leading conflict, humanitarian, and development media organisation, has concluded the fourth cohort of its Accountability Fellowship Programme, culminating in a virtual graduation ceremony held on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The event, hosted by Angela Umoru-David, Director of the HumAngle Foundation, was attended by Ahmad Salkida, HumAngle’s Founder and CEO, and Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu, the […]
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At Bakassi Camp in Maiduguri, North East Nigeria, a quiet resolve marks the faces of women who, months after a devastating flood, find themselves still grappling with survival. This afternoon, the women, from their thirties to their fifties, gather to share their stories of resilience. Among them is Yagana Muhammad, who recalls how she had […]
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Bukar Zarami, a seasoned farmer from the Gongulong community, Jere Local Government Area of Borno, is one of those severely affected by the devastating floods that swept through the northeastern state of Nigeria on Sept. 10. With over three decades of farming experience, Bukar told HumAngle that he has never witnessed a flood of such […]
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Jumbam Musa, a 40-year-old farmer in the Jumbam community, Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria, cultivated his farmland with care, and the income from his agricultural business was enough to take care of his immediate family. But the devastating floods experienced in the community in the last five years have left his farm in ruins. However, this […]
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When flooding submerged towns and villages of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in North East Nigeria, a wave of terror gripped the atmosphere. Thousands of houses were buried underwater; the heavy rainfall swallowed people as families lost track of one another. Hundreds of residents lost their homes to the visiting floods taking over the […]
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Under the blazing midday sun of Gomboru Liberty in Borno, northeast Nigeria, Ali Yerima, a youth advocate and chairman of the Gomboru Youth Association, was in full concentration, sweat trickling down his face, as he carefully adjusted the last tree to be watered for the day. The tree, one of many he recently planted in […]
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