Eye witnesses say an armed vigilante group numbering about 60 on Wednesday, Aug. 30 killed two herders in Bungudu Central Market. The incident took place at about 4:50 pm in Bungudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria. Carrying locally-made guns, the vigilantes came into the Bungudu market amid hundreds of traders and […]
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The Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability (CAJA) has trained students of tertiary institutions in Kano State, North West Nigeria, on reporting sexual harassment and other gender-based violence on Saturday, Aug. 19. CAJA is a nonprofit organization based in Kano that works in collaboration with USAID and Palladium to combat sexual and gender-related violence, […]
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First, he froze in terror, then he blacked out. Aliyu Sani, 45, woke up in a filthy camp in the Bingi forest in Zamfara, a state at the heart of terror attacks in Nigeria’s North West. He was among scores of people abducted when menacing terrorists ransacked his village in Maru, firing a hail of […]
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On a sweltering Wednesday morning in April, a death sentence was served on five young Fulani men. It was summarily delivered by a group of volunteer vigilantes known as Yan Sakai near Sakamaru, a community in the Gwadabawa area of Sokoto State. The killing was not well reported in the media, but it typifies the […]
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