Eromo Egbejule

Abidjan, Nigeria

West Africa Correspondent at The Guardian

West Africa correspondent @guardian. Bluesky: @eromoegbejule.bsky.social; Thread: eromoegbejule.

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Sidi Ould Tah named African Development Bank president

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

The African Development Bank has chosen the Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its president-elect after three rounds of voting on Thursday afternoon. The election took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, at the end of the annual meeting of the continent’s biggest multilateral lender.
Forty-two people killed in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on herders

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

Forty-two people have been killed in four communities in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on itinerant herders, in the latest wave of violence that continues to upend life in the rural region. Reuters reports quote a local official, Victor Omnin, chair of the Gwer West local government area in Benue state, as saying 10 people were killed in a Saturday attack on the villages of Tyolaha and Tse-Ubiam.
aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Eromo Egbejule

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‘Difficult choices’: aid cuts threaten effort to reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

At a UN-run antenatal clinic in a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram, the colours stand out like the bellies of the pregnant women. Abayas in neon green, dark brown and shades of yellow graze against the purple and white uniforms of nurses attending to them in the beige-orange halls of the maternal healthcare facility.
Nigerian film-makers pivot to YouTube as streaming firms pull back

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

For an entire weekend this March, romcom fever gripped Nigerian social media. Thousands of Nigerians, even in the diaspora, debated fervently about Love in Every Word, in which an affair takes off after a smooth-talking, free-spending businessman hires a dance troupe to get an advertising executive’s phone number. Critics poked holes in the plot but the movie’s melodrama appealed to many.
Nigerian film-makers pivot to YouTube as streaming firms pull back

4 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Eromo Egbejule

The actor and producer Omoni Oboli has two production units that help meet her goal of turning out a movie a week. The actor and producer Omoni Oboli has two production units that help meet her goal of turning out a movie a week. Photograph: Courtesy of Omoni OboliFor an entire weekend this March, romcom fever gripped Nigerian social media.
Fears of Boko Haram comeback stir in Nigerian birthplace of Maiduguri

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

On the road running from Maiduguri’s airport to the city, the freshly repainted walls of a girls’ college stood in defiant opposition to a years-long campaign by the jihadists of Boko Haram to make good on their name, which translates as “western education is forbidden”. At a nearby roundabout on the outskirts of the capital of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, three uniformed men sprinted after a cement truck, hoping to collect a road levy.
The plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

1 month ago | genocidewatch.com | Eromo Egbejule

'I love my country but no one is safe': English-speaking minority refugees caught up in clashes between the military and separatists are stranded in neighbouring countryBy Eromo Egbejule Amid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares.
‘Kush destroys them’: the Guinean rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

At Guinea’s only private drug rehabilitation clinic, Dr Marie Koumbassa and her 15-person team are so convinced that drug use is a national emergency that they work for no pay. Every week, SAJED-Guinée (Service for Helping Young People in Difficult Situations due to Drugs) receives dozens of distress calls from relatives of addicts who are then taken to the facility in the working-class Conakry neighbourhood of Dabompa. In richer areas of the city, cocaine is the drug of choice.
‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eromo Egbejule

Amid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares. Outside a closed graphic design shop overlooking them from a small hill, Solange Ndonga Tibesa tells the story of being uprooted from her homeland in north-west Cameroon. In June 2019 she and other travellers were abducted with her three-month-old baby by secessionists, who accused them of supporting the military.