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The day the insurgents attacked in 2014, eight-year-old Aisha Awagana’s home was filled with quiet anticipation. Her mother, Bintu, was heavily pregnant, resting on a mat while Aisha played with her grandmother, giggling as the old woman scolded her for being too restless. It was a normal day—until the gunfire began. There had been whispers […]
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Six months ago, Fatima Modu, a resident of the Dagash IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, noticed her one-year-old daughter, Zainab, was losing a lot of weight. She initially assumed it was due to the child’s recurring bouts of diarrhoea. However, when the weight loss worsened, Fatima brought her to an outpatient […]
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Aja Bukar had just returned from his farm when we met him at his home in Auno, a small village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, North East Nigeria. His 16-hectare farm field is half-cultivated due to severe drought and financial strain. “It was very bad last season,” he recalled. “We planted a bag of rice […]
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It was a cold Tuesday morning in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria. Shop apprentices, owners, and traders were opening their businesses in the Babban Layi area, a commercial hub in the heart of the city. Most traders here deal in new and used electronics, and their daily rituals marked the start of another busy day. Among them, […]
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