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A few days before Christmas in 2008, 15-year-old Nigel Chigudu told UNICEF that he watched as his siblings struggled with the intense grip of cholera during an epidemic that swept through Zimbabwe. He recalled how they started vomiting and later died over lack of access to immediate medical attention. Sixteen years later, there is not …
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“Ethiopia” and “drought” sitting in the same sentence does not come as a shock to those who have studied the country’s history. Thirty-five-old Hamid Heramo, a small-scale farmer in the South West of Ethiopia, told Farm Africa, an organisation providing support to farmers in eastern Africa, that he is now suffering from depression. Agriculture, which …
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Starlet Wahu was a 24-year-old woman who had started to make a name for herself in Kenya’s social circles. Just like it meant nothing, her life was mercilessly snatched in an Airbnb in Nairobi, the country’s capital city, on Jan. 3 while on a date with murder suspect John Matara. After John’s arrest, six women …
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Africa has a history of conflicts that have remained unresolved for many years. The civil war in South Sudan lasted over six years, with over 3.9 million people displaced from their homes. The Burkina Faso Conflict that started in 2016 led to at least 7,600 deaths in 2023 alone. The unstable conflicts in DR Congo …
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Nine months after the war that escalated in Sudan, more than 30 per cent of refugees, asylum seekers, and ethnic South Sudanese have fled to South Sudan, a country that has recently come out of decades of war and is facing one of the worst food crisis in the world, with nine million people said …
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On June 7, 2022, the building where Bolanle Ajayi lived in Lagos, South West Nigeria, got engulfed in flames. It comprised not only her home but her shop and four other residences. Apparently, a resident had opted for the electric stove to conserve gas while preparing a meal for her family. There was a power …
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In more recent years, the humanitarian situation in Cameroon continues to grow dire, especially with the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, which led to the closure of businesses. There has been a persistent rise in the level of insecurity in the Northwest and Southwest regions, with ongoing invasions of armed groups in the Far North, …
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Bwei Hali, 35, was preparing to have a grand Christmas celebration in Plateau, North-central Nigeria, when he started receiving phone calls from neighbouring villages that armed men were launching attacks in some of the communities. By the time he stepped out of his home, Hali said, he saw some corpses that had either been shot …
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Will you be spending the December holidays with your family? For many Nigerians, the answer to this question is no, and the reasons are not far-fetched. Towards the end of every year, many Nigerians have developed a tradition of reuniting with their loved ones, especially after being away from them during the course of the …
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Amnesty International, a group advocating for justice, freedom and equality, has tasked the Nigerian government to address past and current human rights abuses in the country. At a conference held on Dec. 6 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, and themed “Write For Rights Fiesta Agenda 2023”, the global human rights group addressed the unending issues …
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The international organisation for the protection of children’s rights, Save The Children, reports an alarming increase in the displacement of children in Sudan caused by persistent conflict, saying at least 7,600 are being displaced daily in the northeastern African country. “We are seeing abhorrent levels of violence in Sudan. The human rights violations are severe, …
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On Sept. 16, Precious Ihama hopped into the back passenger seat of a commercial vehicle around 6 p.m. at the Nicon Junction in Abuja, North-Central Nigeria. The vehicle zoomed off, and after a while, some passengers stopped at their various destinations one after the other. Now alone in the back seat, one supposed passenger at …
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