Several women sexually violated in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have come forward to report the war crimes committed against them by the M23 rebels amid the ongoing war in the country. The women spoke to Human Rights Watch researchers, but asked to be kept anonymous out of fear of retribution from the predators. …
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Three months into the programme, the fellows have been neck-deep in their work. From issues around domestic and sexual violence, advocacy visits, stakeholder engagements and gaps in the election processes, the month of March has been quite eventful. What have they been up to? In Adamawa, Nazir Mohammed initiated contact with the community leaders of …
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Welcome to another edition of the HumAngle Accountability Newsletter to keep you up-to-date on the activities of our fellows in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. This month, the fellows were kept busy carrying out a range of activities at the grassroots, from advocacy and documenting important stories across different communities in the BAY states. What have …
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As we felicitate with our readers on the new year, HumAngle kickstarted the year with a new adventure – the onboarding of the second cohort of the Accountability Fellowship Program, with support from the MacArthur Foundation. Following a rigorous evaluation, we selected nine promising young men and women from Nigeria’s BAY states to participate in …
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The official onboarding of the 2023 cohort of the HumAngle Accountability Fellowship ended on Jan. 14. On Jan. 12, HumAngle began an in-house training of nine young persons from Northeast Nigeria (Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe) on its accountability fellowship. The fellows were welcomed and inducted at the head office in Abuja. A similar thing was …
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The HumAgle Accountability Fellowship entered its second in-person training day yesterday, Jan. 13. Experts from the fields of research, accountability, activism, journalism, and humanitarian aid were brought in to train the fellows. The first day of the training had focused on trainings around grassroots organizing and mobilization. Director of the Nigeria office at the MacArthur …
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Following a rigorous evaluation period, HumAngle has selected nine young men and women from Nigeria’s BAY states to participate in the second cohort of its Accountability Fellowship. The programme, which is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, was started to prepare young early career professionals to develop local projects around accountability in the security and humanitarian …
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Six months have flown by in a blink of an eye, and with that, so has the fellowship. It’s with both sadness and joy that we are bidding our fellows goodbye, who have so wonderfully excelled in the programme, and contributed immensely to the success of the first cohort. The programme has equipped them with …
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The Accountability Fellowship is about to reach its close, the HumAngle team and our fellows couldn’t be prouder of what they’ve achieved over the course of five months. Just last week, after our fellow from Borno’s report was published on the recent flooding in a community in the state, has led to the immediate demolition …
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Welcome again to another edition of our newsletter, where we share how busy our fellows have been over the past month. Headlines this September have not fallen short of highlighting the heavy rainfall and increased flooding of local communities, rendering many people homeless, and means of livelihood destroyed by water. If you’ve been keeping up …
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As we reach the halfway mark of our fellowship, the fellows have been picking up the pace in a bid to report the accountability gaps in the communities before the programme comes to an end in November. Three months in, the selected fellows have published reports on the crucial issues affecting communities in their senatorial …
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In this month’s edition of our newsletter, read all about how busy our fellows have been in reporting issues around climate action and accountability in the humanitarian and security sector, HumAngle emerging as one of the recipients of the Google News Initiative (GNI), and more. Our fellowship supported by the MacArthur Foundation has produced its …
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