Two weeks after Falmata Ibrahim gave birth, her body stopped making breastmilk for her baby. The baby would whine for breastmilk, and in both desperation and frustration, she would let him suckle, but nothing would come out. It has been five months now, and she is still struggling to produce milk for her baby. It […]
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“With zero knowledge of where they were heading, I too hauled myself into the big truck that came to help people escape from Pulka, and we did not stop travelling until we reached Kano,” recalled Aliyu Mohammed, a 15-year-old orphan and an internally displaced person in Borno state. “Life was hard in Kano because everyone […]
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Residents of an oil bearing community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo, South East Nigeria are living in fear after terrorists left a trail of death and destruction through their community. Militants from the group Indigenous People Of Biafra have mounted several attacks on the community over the last few weeks. Young men have […]
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Some victims of the 2012 explosion in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, are still homeless. Most of the 17,000 from the incident have cried out over their lack of shelter. On March 4, 2012, the arms and ammunition depot in Mpila quarter of Brazzaville exploded. It resulted in the death of at […]
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When the wail of an air raid siren sounded overnight on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, Jessica Orakpo jolted to wakefulness and wondered if it was all a nightmare or a reality setup: the distant dread of a long-anticipated Russian invasion coming to life. It was both. Car horns blared with the same velocity, as suitcases […]
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