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Abubakar Muhammad and Salihu Muhammed sat beside the road on granite rocks, what remained of materials used to refill the ditch created weeks earlier by flooding in Sabon Gida, a community in the Gbako area of Niger, North-central Nigeria. The road links Niger’s capital, Minna, to Bida, an ancient Nupe city. It has been cut […]
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One after another, passengers alighted from their cars. Two men in their mid-twenties, Mohammed and Tasihu, emerged from a boat to direct the drivers. They had deliberately parked the boat in the middle of the road to prevent them from passing through a route that was no longer navigable. One car, whose driver might have […]
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Young Aliyu Abubakar wore his beret like a union leader and folded his trousers above his knees to keep them from getting wet as he made his way towards Ganuwar Kuka Primary School. He is a student here. But the buildings were submerged in water and he could not get close. “I am tired. It […]
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