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Building A Market And A Future After Boko Haram
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ABUJAIn the sweltering midday heat of the IDP Farmers’ Beans Market, Ladi Mattias haggled with a customer before finally agreeing, satisfied, to sell him a 100 kilogram sack of beans for 12,000 naira...
Briefing: Nigerians Seek Safety In Cameroon As Boko Haram Crisis Escalates
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ABUJAA wave of increasingly sophisticated militant attacks in northeastern Nigeria has forced almost 60,000 people to flee since November, the largest number for more than two years, raising fears fro...
A Hard Row To Hoe For Nigeria To Reach Food Self-sufficiency
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KANOOn the outskirts of Nigeria’s northern city of Kano is bustling Dawanau, West Africa's largest grain market. Fortunes change hands here daily, with sacks of millet, sorghum, and cowpeas loaded ont...
Briefing: Nigerian Farmers Can’t Fight Desertification Alone
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Gandi/NigeriaWhen Abbas Gandi lost a large portion of his crops to the combined ravages of desertification and drought a few years ago, he was so disillusioned he considered abandoning his 10-hectare...
Back To War: Cameroon Forcibly Deporting Nigerian Refugees
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ABUJACameroonian soldiers are using “extreme physical violence” to force tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency to return to northeastern Nigeria, Human Rights Watch has warne...
In Nigeria, Healing The Scars Of War Might Curtail Its Spread
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MAIDUGURIIt’s often said that prevention is better than cure. But when it comes to the devastation wreaked upon civilians by armed groups, can cure serve as a form of prevention?For Imrana Alhaji Buba...
Taking The Fight Against Boko Haram To The Airwaves
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Maidaguri, NigeriaIsolation helps propagate radicalisation, so providing information and giving an empowering voice to civilians helps reduce it. That’s the idea behind a radio station broadcasting ac...
Flood-ridden Nigeria Farmers Need More Help Adapting To Climate Change
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Oko-Amakom, NigeriaOkechukwu Onwuma still remembers the painful day heavy floods destroyed his small farm in southern Nigeria’s Delta State.“It was in November 2012, and the flood didn’t spare anythin...