Boko Haram: fight or talk? Last year, the Nigerian military persistently denied media reports of an upsurge in attacks by Boko Haram in the country’s northeast. Then, in November 2018, the Islamist militant group raided an army base near the border with...
The women behind Nigeria’s #BringBackOurGirls movement have spent four years defying police crackdowns to sustain their campaign and now they want the president’s job Judging by their appearance, the women meeting at the Unity Fountain in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja,...
Recent conflicts between pastoralists and farmers are prompting some African countries such as Nigeria to seek to curtail the Fulani’s ancient itinerant culture As a boy growing up in rural Taraba state in north-east Nigeria, Mohammed Bello recalls roaming the bushes...
Development efforts by local authorities in a bid to deal with urbanisation have increased incidences of forced evictions, sometimes with deadly consequences The bulldozers arrived late at night after residents of Otodo Gbame, a waterfront community in Nigeria’s...
Boko Haram: fight or talk? Last year, the Nigerian military persistently denied media reports of an upsurge in attacks by Boko Haram in the country’s northeast. Then, in November 2018, the Islamist militant group raided an army base near the border with...
The women behind Nigeria’s #BringBackOurGirls movement have spent four years defying police crackdowns to sustain their campaign and now they want the president’s job Judging by their appearance, the women meeting at the Unity Fountain in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja,...
Recent conflicts between pastoralists and farmers are prompting some African countries such as Nigeria to seek to curtail the Fulani’s ancient itinerant culture As a boy growing up in rural Taraba state in north-east Nigeria, Mohammed Bello recalls roaming the bushes...
Development efforts by local authorities in a bid to deal with urbanisation have increased incidences of forced evictions, sometimes with deadly consequences The bulldozers arrived late at night after residents of Otodo Gbame, a waterfront community in Nigeria’s...
