Nigeria
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Humanitarian Crises
Nigeria’s Displaced People Wasting Away Outside The Fold Of Humanitarian Support
Everywhere was quiet at the Shuwari Five displacement camp in northeast Nigeria, except under the tree where Aliyu Usman and…
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Featured
Highway Extortion By Security Agents In Borno Gulping Millions Yearly, Affecting Lives
The whirring from a vulcaniser at the Bama motor park in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, could hardly be ignored. Passengers gradually…
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Gender & SGBV
Displaced Women In Nigeria’s Katsina Are Starving, And They May Never Get Aid
The heat from the sun could be felt in the bones. Katsina city is hot, so hot that it feels…
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Development
A Local Malnutrition Centre Is Giving Malnourished Children Hope In Northwest Nigeria
Hassana and Hussaina are turning two soon. They are playing around their mother’s legs as she speaks about being displaced…
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Development
Tears On The Shore: How Lagos $1.5 Billion Seaport Ruined Fortunes Of Local Communities
Nobody wanted to tell me the story behind the pain of a people in the coastal settlements of Lekki in…
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Gender & SGBV
Surviving Financial Abuse In A Traditional Marriage
When Rashida Ibrahim’s* brother came back home with a lost phone he picked up on the streets of Kaduna in…
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Disinformation
The Curious Case Of The ‘Unknown Gunmen’ And IPOB’s Internet Propaganda
Key takeaways: IPOB accounts on Facebook and other social media platforms began amplifying unknown gunmen attacks in early 2021, coinciding…
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Disinformation
Factcheck: This Video Shows Old Protest In Kano, Unconnected To Demolition Exercise
A video showing a placard-carrying crowd has been claimed to show a protest in Kano, Northwest Nigeria, against the state…
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Features
Farmers Risk It All To Work Fields In Nigeria’s Borno
Running late, 61-year-old grandmother Ammama Mohammed rushed to collect her farming tools and head out to her fields from her…
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Development
UN Allocates $20 Million For North East Nigeria Hunger Crisis
Over 700,000 children are likely to suffer from life-threatening malnutrition in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states this year, the United…
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