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Fiona (surname withheld), a 56-year-old widow, makes little profit selling charcoal nowadays. A resident of Bachure in Yola, northeastern Nigeria, she used to buy the product for ₦2,000 and sell at the rate of ₦4,000. That, as far as she was concerned, was a decent profit. Things changed for the worse when Governor Ahmadu Umaru […]
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Joy Ibrahim, a 29-year-old survivor, recounted the terrifying moment when a boat capsized in the river between Dandu and Rugange Community, Adamawa State, on Sept. 8. The tragedy had claimed 13 lives, leaving the community in shock and mourning. “We went to Rugange to buy maize, but we didn’t find what we needed,” Ibrahim said. […]
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Eunice Elisha is one of many young girls experiencing hardship as a result of period poverty in Adamawa State, North East Nigeria. “The effect is not just physical, it is emotional and even mental,” said the 16-year-old. Like many women, she started menstruating at the early stage of her teens. But Eunice neither has access […]
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