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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.
Gender-based violence is on the rise as humanitarian crisis deepens in Nigeria’s northeast
While their wives receive aid assistance, husbands regard them as assets … but when the aid stops the women became liabilities, nothing more than sex slaves and punch bags
Farmers seek divine intervention for steady rainfall during this year’s dry wet season
The low and erratic rain during the wet season this year has prompted religious leaders and traditional rulers in Borno State to enjoin thousands of farmers and others to pray earnestly to Almighty Allah to intervene to provide steady rainfall, witho
Babies suffer from malnutrition because their mothers cannot afford exorbitant price of food
A lactating mother needs nutritious food to produce enough breast milk to feed her newborn – but, with the exorbitant price of food, some mothers are struggling and are feeding their babies pap instead.
Unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions the plight of many internally displaced women
Before the closure of official, state-run internally displaced persons’ camps in Maiduguri, women had easy access to sexual and reproductive health services – now they have to deal with unwanted pregnancies and, often, unsafe abortions.
Newly wedded penitent insurgents and displaced widows find love, happiness and hope
Repentant insurgents, at first deeply distrusted by ordinary inhabitants of Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast, are starting new lives and finding love and acceptance – even marrying and having children with the widows whose husbands they helped to k
Maiduguri a city overrun by large numbers of street children
Children as young as four years old are among the more than 10 million kids living on the streets in Nigeria.
As costs soar to new heights, president declares immediate state of emergency on food
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – reacting to the steep increases in prices caused in no small part by removal of the fuel levy on July 1 – has declared an immediate state of emergency on food.
Missing days at school because of menstruation can have a devastating effect – and often leads to girls dropping out of the education system
Millions of girls across the globe miss school for a week every month because of menstruation.
Renowned activist tells Nigerians that education for girls is not optional, it is a fundamental human right
Every year since 2013, July 12 is observed as Malala Day to honour education activist Malala Yousafzai, the young girl who became an international symbol for the fight for girls’ education after she was shot in 2012 for opposing Taliban restrictions
Hundreds of IDPs face being chucked out of their homes and on to the streets
Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs), who moved almost a year ago into a housing unit meant for 1,000, face being chucked out of their houses and on to the streets in five days because they do not have residency permits.
