People who lost their homes in a fire that gutted Muna camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Borno state, northeast Nigeria, will also lose their vote as their voters’ cards went up in the flames. While some were rueing the loss of their democratic mandate, others told HumAngle they were disappointed they will not […]
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People who fled Borno to displacement camps in Adamawa state are at risk of being forgotten and left out of resettlement plans, it can be revealed. Authorities administering the camps in Adamawa expect the authorities in Borno to take responsibility for their indigenes who have been housed in camps across the state border in Adamawa, […]
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Voters from almost three-quarters of Borno’s Local Government Areas will cast their ballots in the forthcoming elections in some form of displaced people’s camp or polling station that is not their registered home. Voters in at least 19 of Borno’s 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) will vote in “resettlement” camps, set up to hold internally […]
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Sixty-year-old Hamsatu Shalva was all smiles as she sat in a row with other women waiting to receive food, clothing, and cash palliative from government officials before returning to her rebuilt home in Kirawa town near the Mandara mountain range in northeast, Nigeria. It was day two since her arrival at Kirawa, her ancestral home […]
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Authorities in Nigeria’s Northeast Borno State are set to commence resettlement of households in makeshift shelters constructed in Malam Fatori near Lake Chad and the border with the Niger Republic. Babagana Zulum, the Governor of the State, visited Malam Fatori on Sunday, March 6 to inspect the reconstruction and rehabilitation projects including 1,000 temporary shelters […]
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A fire that consumed the shelter of Garba Isa, 53, on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 28, did not only render him and his large household homeless. According to him, he also lost all that he hoped to start a new life with when he finally returned to Mafa, his hometown, in Borno, Northeast Nigeria. […]
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Female Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Benue State, North-central Nigeria, who suffer large scale period poverty, have received sanitary pads donations following a report by HumAngle. A group of Nigerian professionals in the United States, moved by the plight of the women and girls, made a substantial cash donation to purchase sanitary pads and other […]
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The United Nations would issue a statement after investigating the involvement of a humanitarian worker who allegedly raped a female minor that later committed suicide in Maiduguri, Borno State, a source said. The Daily Trust newspaper had earlier reported that a teenage girl in Maiduguri, Borno state capital committed suicide after being forcefully defiled by […]
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Wata ‘yar gudun hijira mai shekara 25 ta shiga hannun ‘yan Boko Haram a lokacin da take sana’ar saro itace. Daga nan suka yi garkuwa da ita.
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The eyes of the children at EYN (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria) Shwari Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, light up when they talk about school and a certain Daddy Zoka, whom they say “gave them hope.” Then they become even more animated as they chat about the subjects they love and what […]
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A group of women at Dalori II Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria has alleged that camp officials do selective treatment when it comes to the distribution of relief materials. Ali Hadiza, a mother of four children, told HumAngle that despite having a food e-voucher provided by the World Food Program’s […]
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It was 7 p.m. in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. The rush hours were over and the streets were getting emptier by the minute. An old woman in the traditional hijab stood on the opposite lane of the dual carriageway that led to the junction connecting the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and the Tashan […]
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