Regional News
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.
Resettled houses in Borno State’s Konduga district are a ‘total disgrace’
IDPs say although they have complained to local authorities, no one in the Konduga district has responded, so they continue to live in filth and squalor in homes that are […]
Women grounded by recent spate in the number of kidnappings
Women firewood collectors say they are too scared to go to the bushes because they are easy pickings for insurgents who lie in wait to kidnap them. The recent spate […]
Maiduguri-Gamboru Ngala road a hellish highway that has already claimed many lives
Frequent attacks by insurgents and armed criminals, hundreds of potholes and major accidents make the highway a nightmare drive, particularly in the rainy season. Motorists, traders and passengers who use […]
Food aid stampede: 11 injured and four others admitted for emergency care
Chaos as huge and uncontrollable crowd storms Borno State government’s palliative food aid distribution centre in Damboa Several people fainted and 11 were injured, four seriously, in a stampede that […]
Niger coup: Closed borders are having a devasting effect on fishing trade
Traders say the once-thriving Baga fish market in Maiduguri is becoming a ghost of its former self because dealers can no longer conduct business with Niger merchants
A deadly week in Borno State
Citizens are calling for better protection as more improvised explosive devices are being discovered along Borno State’s major routes
Two killed in attacks in the Damboa and Magumeri local government areas
Civilian joint taskforce member shot dead in Damboa and man killed in Magumeri – both attacks carried out by insurgents
‘We want to take the war to the insurgents so that we can crush them once and for all’
Five criminals, who have been pretending to be insurgents and have been terrorising residents in villages in the Kaga Local Government Area of Borno, were killed by soldiers and other security operatives on Monday, May 8.
A mother’s anguish as son’s visit ends in his death
A young man who was visiting his mother at an internally displaced persons’ camp in Nguro Soye in the Bama Local Government Area of Borno State has been shot and killed by unknown gunmen, suspected of being members of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah
Sahel : Journalists face death threats and assaults – since 2013, seven have been killed, six are missing and 120 have been arrested
Working in the Sahel region – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal – is becoming increasingly dangerous for journalists, many of whom have been subjected to death threats, assaults,
