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3 weeks ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo |Dan Ikpoyi
KARA, Nigeria (AP) — Muslim families across west Africa are grappling with the steep cost of rams for the traditional sacrifice that is central to the celebration of Eid al-Adha, a struggle that mirrors the region’s deepening economic and humanitarian crises. At the Kara livestock market in southern Nigeria’s Ogun state, ram sellers and buyers are in a bind. Prices have at least doubled compared with last year, slowing sales for what is usually a busy market packed in the lead-up to Eid.
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3 weeks ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
MOKWA, Nigeria (AP) — On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now reduced to sludge and shattered wood by devastating floods. The Islamic teacher, clutching only the threadbare clothes he escaped with, started shouting the names of the pupils he housed and might never see again. Some pupils tried to escape with him through the back of the house, which also doubled as the school.
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1 month ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUYA, Nigeria (AP) — Un resurgimiento de los ataques de Boko Haram está sacudiendo el noreste de Nigeria, ya que este grupo extremista islámico ha invadido repetidamente puestos militares, colocado minas en carreteras y allanado comunidades civiles desde que comenzó el año, lo que genera temores de que regrese la inseguridad de la época en que Boko Haram estaba en auge a pesar de que las fuerzas armadas dicen lograr éxitos.
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1 month ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks is shaking Nigeria’s northeast, as Islamic extremists have repeatedly overrun military outposts, mined roads with bombs, and raided civilian communities since the start of the year, raising fears of a possible return to peak Boko Haram-era insecurity despite the military’s claims of successes. Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law.
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1 month ago |
apnews.com | Taiwo Hassan Adebayo
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A suspected militant attack on two villages in Nigeria left at least 57 people dead and at least 70 missing on Thursday, witnesses said Sunday, in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast this year. Abdulrahman Ibrahim survived Thursday’s attack on two villages in Baga in Borno State and participated in the burial of the dead.
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