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Zainab Abubakar, a 55-year-old divorcee, cannot access humanitarian support from the Borno State government for one major reason – she is not officially recognised as a displaced person. Yet, even now, the memory of how she fled from Limankara in Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria in 2014, to Maiduguri, the […]
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Children bear the physical and mental scars of the horrors and brutality of Nigeria’s 13-year-old insurgency in the northeast. One of them is 16-year-old Bakura, who was forced to flee his hometown of Saye in the Bama Local Government Area of central Borno. Bukura always smiled and looked away whenever he attempted to answer my […]
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Once, Karu Bulama did not have a proper meal to break her Ramadan fast for three days. When the call to prayer is announced at the end of each day’s fast, there would be no food for her family to eat. Ramadan—the ninth month of the Muslim calendar—usually brings glad tidings to Muslim faithful globally, […]
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Hajiya and her husband, who is originally from Fatika in Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria, did not plan to save lives. But this was exactly what happened when some villages in the area were attacked by terrorists, locally known as bandits, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Braving the odds The […]
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