Insurgency

Everyone agrees children are the future, but no one wants to invest in them – Ben Foot, Save the Children Chief

  ‎ Ben Foot is the Country Director of Save the Children in Nigeria. The humanitarian organisation is currently working in...

Blood-thirsty demons of Zamfara: Relentless bandits, helpless policemen and soldiers part (IV)

Zamfara State has been a hotbed of killings and kidnappings. The media is awash with reportage of these incidents, daily reeling off figures of casualties. These lives are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have been gruesomely uprooted from their families. ‘Blood-Thirsty Demons of Zamfara’ is a four-part series that chronicles the pains, losses and sufferings of families being crushed by the ongoing banditry in the state.
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Boko Haram attacks military base again, kills many soldiers

AT least 30 Nigerian soldiers were killed in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in...

‘All my sons in the bush will come home’ – Aisha Wakil says Boko Haram will surrender

  Aisha Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram for her close ties to the insurgents, has expressed confidence that...
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7.7m people in the northeast need help — 930,000 of them cannot be reached

  Of the 7.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance this year in the worst-affected states of Borno, Adamawa...

Remembering Charles Ilo, the brave soldier killed by Boko Haram on Val’s Day 2015

  This piece, first published by TheCable in 2016, is republished today, on the occasion of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day,...
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