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Widowed by Insecurity, Women Struggle to Remarry in Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
Barriers hinder women from remarrying. Data on Nigeria report more than 10,000 women widowed since Boko Haram conflict in 2009. During the insurgency, hundreds of young men from Borno state were arrested, abducted, or forced to join the insurgents.
Children suffer as life in Pulka IDP camp is much harder than it was in Maiduguri IDP camp
Returnees from internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri are finding life harder than ever living in an IDP camp in their original community in Pulka in the Gwoza Local Government […]
Insurgents have their sights set on towns and villages in the south of Borno State
Insurgents, thought to be members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), appear to have their sights set on towns and villages in the south of Borno State. Two […]
Buried improvised explosive device kills two CJTF members and wounds three others
Brief – Two Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members were killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated on Saturday, January 15, in Marte in the Dikwa […]
Three men killed, five women abducted in attack on Kautikari village in Chibok
Brief – Three villagers were killed, five women abducted and the medical dispensary, a school, a church and more than 20 houses were torched when insurgents, thought to be members […]
Kura Bari Program : AFCON 2021; Who are the top contenders ?
Hello and welcome ! Our topic today is AFCON 2021: Who are the top contenders ? And our guests are; Mohammed Auwal, a football analyst; and Moussa Ousmane, a sports journalist from […]
Museum workers killed in attack on Nigerian Army University’s Tukur Yusuf Buratai Institute of War and Peace
Brief – Two museum staff members were killed when insurgents, thought to be members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), attacked the Tukur Yusuf Buratai Institute of War […]
Dikwa CJTF captures abducted sugar cane seller now fighting for Boko Haram
Brief – A former sugar cane seller, who was abducted by the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’way Wa’l-Jihād (JAS) on his farm last year, was captured by the Civilian Joint Task […]
Brief: Soldiers quash yet another attack on village in Askira-Uba region
The Nigerian army in Mussa in the Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State swiftly repelled insurgents attempting to attack the military base on the outskirts of the village on […]
Maiduguri explosions: I went to the hospital to see my injured wife and daughter – I saw a child die
“I had left for work in the morning when I received a call that a rocket hit my house and that my wife and daughter were injured and had been […]
Blood was flowing from my body and I thought I was dying, says survivor of Kilangar attack
“God helped me. When the fighters caught us, they lined us up on the ground. I put my head on my hands. The bullet hit me in my back and […]
