In a rare sense of camaraderie, inmates and officers at the Maiduguri Medium Custodial Facility in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, are discovering common ground through…
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…
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…
As the warm morning sun cast its golden rays over the serene landscape of Bobda, a small village in the Jada Local Government Area of…
VOV 117: Displaced Thirteen Times Over | RSS.com Due to the insurgency in Nigeria’s North East, 54-year-old Binta Bukar has been forced to relocate 13…
Adamu Abdulsalam is a civil servant and small-scale farmer who regularly travels from Gwoza town to Kirawa in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. The 38-year-old often…
VOV 119: 11 Long Years In Detention | RSS.com This episode of #VOV tells the story of Aisha, who, like her husband, was arrested by…
VOV 116: To Lose A Mother In Conflict | RSS.com 19-year-old Pwajeldi Lazarus lost her mother to a farmer-herder crisis in Numan, northeastern Nigeria. This…
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…
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…
For over three decades, Ahmed Abubakar, a 67-year-old trader from a small community in Potiskum, Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria, has lived with diabetes. “I was…
In the aftermath of the recent devastating floods in Maiduguri, Borno State’s capital in northeastern Nigeria, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has…
Six months ago, Fatima Modu, a resident of the Dagash IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, noticed her one-year-old daughter, Zainab, was…
Aja Bukar had just returned from his farm when we met him at his home in Auno, a small village on the outskirts of Maiduguri,…
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…
It was a cold Tuesday morning in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria. Shop apprentices, owners, and traders were opening their businesses in the Babban Layi area, a…
Darkness has descended upon towns and villages in many parts of Northern Nigeria following the disruption of two 330kV Ugwaji-Apir Double Circuit transmission lines, impacting…
“There,” he said. Hanging beside the driver in a commercial tricycle, Haruna* pointed at the front yard of a house on the east side of…
For over a decade, Nigeria’s military has fought to reclaim control over territories ravaged by extremist violence in the North East. But they have not…
Terrorists have violated the peace accord with seven communities in Zamfara state, North West Nigeria. Barely a year after brokering peace with community heads, an…