One Monday morning, many years ago in Southeastern Nigeria, Ifeoma’s aunt roused her from sleep and they set out to the hospital to consult a doctor. If the cold harmattan wind was digging its teeth into her flesh, Ifeoma did not take note of it because her mind was wound tight with thoughts of the […]
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As the Nigerian Government struggles to contain insecurity ravaging Africa’s most populous country, young girls and women are exposed to sexual violence daily. Since April 2014, when 276 girls between 16 and 18 were kidnapped by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, it has […]
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed in a recent report that children are trained into armed groups after getting abducted and experiencing sexual violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. James Elder, UNICEF Spokesperson revealed during a press briefing on Tuesday, Oct. 5 that as humanitarian access is gradually improving, reports of minors turned into […]
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General Yves Ditengou, the Gabonese army chief of staff, has promised sanctions against members of the country’s contingent to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) that were recently withdrawn from that country following accusations of sexual violence and exploitation of women and girls. “The accusations against successive Gabonese […]
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World Health Organisation (WHO) staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of sexual violence on women in the country. A recently published report by an independent commission set up in Oct. 2020 by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director General, bemoaned “structural weaknesses and individual negligence” by staff and the WHO administration […]
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Aisha Abubakar* was only eight when she lost both parents; one late Sunday afternoon in January 2019, a terror group killed over two dozen people and sacked Warwana, Tabkin Kwasa, and Dutsi villages in Gandi District of Rabah Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State. It took a while before Aisha reunited with her four […]
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Recent polls conducted by NOIpolls across Nigeria revealed that 85 per cent of participants believe sexual violence is on the rise in the country. Although this poll covers only 1,000 respondents, rape cases and other forms of sexual violence are commonplace in national dailies. The pandemic bears bizarre imprints such as the rape of two-year-olds, […]
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