Emmanuel Akinwotu
International Correspondent at NPR
@NPR international correspondent, based in Lagos | [email protected] | ex @guardian @afp bylns @nytimes @newstatesman etc | Croydon X Ile-Oluji X Lagos Island
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1 week ago |
opb.org | Faiz Abubakr |Tara Neill |Emmanuel Akinwotu
A Sudanese army soldier in Omdurman, Sudan on 2024. Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images of violence and death. Sudan’s catastrophic civil war is grinding into a third year. A conflict that continues to shatter a country that much of the international community still struggles to pay attention to. Tens of thousands have been killed since Sudan’s Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group started fighting in the capital Khartoum in April 2023.
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1 week ago |
wcbe.org | Emmanuel Akinwotu
LONDON — Foreign ministers from 20 countries are meeting in London Tuesday as part of a diplomatic effort to restart stalled peace talks over Sudan's civil war that began two years ago. The United Nations says the conflict has prompted the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and the most devastating famine in decades.
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1 week ago |
npr.org | Emmanuel Akinwotu |Greg Dixon
Allegations of a Land Grab on Nigeria's Coast Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1244093029/1269086424" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Many communities have thrived for years on the peninsula and islands in the lagoon around Nigeria's crowded commercial capital Lagos.
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2 weeks ago |
opb.org | Kate Bartlett |Emmanuel Akinwotu
Army soldiers patrol a market area in Khartoum. “I felt the air was lighter, I felt very joyful. I felt a lot of emotions, I was overwhelmed on that morning.”That’s how Khartoum resident Duaa Tariq described feeling when the Sudanese capital was liberated from almost two years of brutal paramilitary occupation over a week ago.
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1 month ago |
wunc.org | Emmanuel Akinwotu
Susan Anderson, age 52, sits in the corner of a sunlit waiting room at a dermatology clinic in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Dark patches of skin, dotted with brighter pigments, surround her eyes and cover her cheeks. "It used to be much worse," she says, scrolling through pictures of her face on her phone, taken more than a year ago, when the blotches were raw and parts of her skin seared pink. Doctors who first saw her said it looked as if she had first-degree burns.
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