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The heat from the sun could be felt in the bones. Katsina city is hot, so hot that it feels like the town is sitting on a pot of boiling liquid. But on the left side of Babbar Ruga road are women clad in hijabs, perching beneath trees that do not provide enough protection from …
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Hassana and Hussaina are turning two soon. They are playing around their mother’s legs as she speaks about being displaced and how her daughters have been malnourished. They were six months old in their mother’s belly when she and her family fled from Batagarawa Local Government Area of Katsina, a state in northwestern Nigeria, due …
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News of the intended removal of fuel subsidies took immediate effect at the pump as the price of petroleum almost tripled in some places. On May 31 fuel stations increased their prices from ₦197 to as high as ₦557 in some states. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) made the announcement days after Nigeria’s …
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As the curtain closes on the Muhammadu Buhari-led government, the presidency has begun listing the accomplishments and milestones achieved by the administration within eight years of two terms. On May 1, 2023, a 90-page written account of the high points of the administration was released. The statement listed reforms and policies put in place to …
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It began with an idea. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Kano, a state in Northwest Nigeria, Maryam Muhammed noticed how scarce sanitary pads had become. Due to the lockdown, shops and kiosks remained closed and women and adolescent girls found it difficult to access safe period products. Although this was a general plight for women, …
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A battle of wills has erupted between the management of an internally displaced people’s camp in Adamawa and the residents, who have decided they have had enough and just want to go home, HumAngle has learned. The IDPs at Malkohi camp in Yola have hired a lorry and have begun loading it with their belongings …
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Fewer than one in ten sexually active women in a displacement camp in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, have access to contraceptives and use them, a survey has revealed. Of 271 women surveyed who were sexually active, only 23, or just over 8 percent said they had access to contraceptives. While 111 of those assessed stated they …
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Nigerian medicines regulators have granted provisional approval for a new malaria vaccine, as final testing continues in three other African countries. Authorities expect to take delivery of millions of doses this year and begin administering them to children at risk of catching malaria, without any need for further tests. The move by Nigeria’s drug administration …
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West and Central Africa could be “one step away” from famine, the United Nations has said, and analysts are forecasting Nigeria will not be spared. Countries in the Sahel region, particularly Burkina Faso and Mali are particularly at risk, the UN says. But HumAngle can report that communities in Nigeria’s northern regions will also find …
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Nigeria is among the ten countries in the world least able to deal with looming environmental disasters like increased flooding, drought and extreme hot weather, international humanitarian organisations say. Nigeria joins countries like Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Yemen, because “political tensions and widespread conflict have contributed to the country’s fragility, …
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Musa Tela’s children were playing, his wife was turning corn flour to pap while he and his friends socialised beneath a tree when word came from their community’s chief. Everyone in the village and its surroundings was advised to flee. “By 12pm sharp, we had left,” Musa recalls. Tela was a farmer in the Gwoza …
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Over a million children are out of school in Burkina Faso following the closure of thousands of schools and learning facilities across the country in February. This has led to a 40 percent increase in the number of children out of school, since the end of the last year in Dec. 2022, according to the …
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