North-East
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Armed Violence
Landmine Attacks Spike In Borno With 16 Killed In A Week, Including Pregnant Woman
Borno state in North East Nigeria is reeling from a spate of deadly landmine attacks, with violent extremist groups blamed…
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Analyses
Nigerian Women In Conflict Zones Battle Maternal Mortality Crisis
When it was time for Famata Hassan’s pregnant daughter to deliver her baby, violence struck again in the war-torn Borno…
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Features
Neglected Elderly Women Sleep On The Streets After IDP Camp’s Closure In Borno
One morning about a year ago, when government officials arrived at the Kawar Maila makeshift camp to distribute relocation notices,…
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Armed Violence
Fishermen In Nigeria’s North East Either Pay Levies To Terrorists Or Risk Assault, Death
Standing on the shores of Lake Chad in Baga, Nigeria’s North East, 41-year-old Yusuf Usman and his son, Ibrahim, tidied…
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Armed Violence
A Decade After, 89 Abducted Chibok Girls Still Missing – Borno Gov’t
Ten years have passed since the infamous night of April 14, 2014, when Boko Haram insurgents stormed the Government Girls…
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Features
What Does War Do To A Boy?
It is 2014, and he is on a bus with his mother and other families, travelling to Gombe for a…
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Human Rights
The Fight Against Boko Haram Leaves A Trail Of Ruin And Ashes
Zara Goni remembers. It was a Wednesday in June 2014, around 8 a.m. Her people had scuttled indoors when they…
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News
Maiduguri Residents Suffer Through 43°C Heat Amid Unexplained Power Cuts
The city of Maiduguri in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, has been plunged into darkness for several weeks, leaving its residents…
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Features
Almajiri Children Grow Old, Too. But What Happens When They Do?
Babagana Muhammad spent 14 years seeking religious knowledge. He started when he was five, around the same age children get…
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Features
How Climate Change Affects Women In Northeastern Nigeria
On a Saturday evening in November last year, a pickup truck came to a stop in front of an Internally…
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