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Eromo Egbejule
Abuja, 1st August 2016
After his father, a welder from Bama, died in a camp for internally displaced people in Nigeriaโs northeastern...
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Obi Anyadike
Nairobi, 10 June 2016
Public approval in Nigeria and Kenya for their governmentsโ handling of jihadist violence is low, and citizens have...
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Gianluca Iazzolino
Kinshasa, 8th March 2016
Sheet-metal huts spring up among the graves. Some are the ghosts of brick houses that once existed nearby....
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By Samuel Okiror
KAMPALA, 19 January 2016
At least 640,000 people in Ugandaโs northeastern Karamoja region โ more than half its population โ are facing food...
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Oxford, 27August 2015
Using the right terms when referring to Europeโs migration crisis has become a minefield for journalists. For starters, itโs not exactly a...
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Sylvestre Tetchiada
Minawao (Cameroon), 10th August 2015
Itโs still early in the morning in Cameroonโs Far North Region, but hundreds of Nigerian refugees are...
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Nouakchott, 9th ย July 2015
Nearly 50,000 Malian refugees are at risk following the suspension of food aid to their camp in southeastern Mauritania, with NGOs...
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Nyumanzi (Uganda), 1st ย June 2015
Through 17 months of conflict, tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan and two million more...
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Nairobi, 17 aprile 2015
Kenya this week began building a barrier along its entire border with Somalia, in a purported effort to prevent incursions by...
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Crispin Dembassa-Kette
Baoro (Central African Repubblic), 8thย April 2015
The room was packed. Everyone wanted to speak: unsurprising after years of conflict that has claimed...
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Geneva, 7th ย April 2015
Most wonโt call it a cut-back, let alone a withdrawal. Instead they use words like โrestructuringโ, โrationalisingโ, or even โstabilisationโ. But...
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Kampala, 16 December 2014
Plans by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and UN peacekeepers to again take on one of the oldest insurgencies...
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Kinshasa, 18 December 2014
The authorities in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hope soon to close the 60-odd camps...
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Monrovia/Dakar, 5 December 2014
Male Ebola survivors in Liberia are being warned by local health authorities to abstain from sex for at least three months...