Special Podcast Episode: Revisiting The Mass Grave | RSS.com Nigeria has a missing persons problem. This is no news. But it is still a profoundly devastating situation. At HumAngle, we measure the human cost of things, the extent of things. For a year, we measured the extent of the missing persons problem through human-interest stories […]
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Aug. 30 is set aside for the International Day of the Disappeared. This year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hosted a convention in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital territory, to commemorate the date. In a statement released through its public relations unit in Geneva, Switzerland, today, ICRC revealed that the cases of missing […]
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Janet Mfanyi’s little boy was the first child to be taken. Since then, she has been besieged by a combination of sadness and loneliness that no amount of jovial company can remedy. Even though her husband is alive and well, Mfanyi lives like a widow at the IDP camp, the toddler tugging at her wrapper, […]
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Nigeria submitted a report on its progress in legislating against and preventing enforced disappearances to the United Nations (UN) nine years after the due date. The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) made this observation on Monday, Sept. 18, at its 25th session in Geneva. The CED is a body of experts elected to monitor the […]
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