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April 1, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Bloody Easter in Nigeria’s Middle Belt

Over Easter weekend there were at least fifty deaths attributable to ethnic and religious conflict near Jos in Plateau state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. This time, based on media reports, most of the v…

A family gathers around the grave, where three murdered family members were buried together, in Jos in Nigeria's Plateau state, December 28, 2011.

November 20, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Can the U.S. Help Nigeria Confront Boko Haram?

For a long time Nigeria was Washington’s most important strategic partner on issues of security and stability in Africa. But, the Boko Haram insurgency and Abuja’s response to it has put that partner…

Schoolgirl

March 13, 2014

Nigeria
Health Services Collapse in Northeast Nigeria

Recently an Agence France Press (AFP) article reported that health services have collapsed in Borno state in northeast Nigeria due to the onslaught of “Boko Haram.” AFP reports that hospitals and cli…

Nigeria Polio

May 24, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
The Rescued Chibok Girl and the Victims Support Fund

This is a guest post by Sherrie Russell-Brown. She is an international human rights lawyer, who writes about issues of gender, security, international justice and humanitarian law, with a regional fo…

Chibok_girl_buhari

January 3, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigera’s "War on Terror" and the Fuel Subsidy Ends

A protester walks past burning tyres while biting a lighter during a rally against fuel subsidy removal on Ikorodu road in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos January 3, 2012. (Akintunde Akinleye/Cour…

Nigera’s "War on Terror" and the Fuel Subsidy Ends