Niger hit by Nigeria’s Boko Haram fallout
By Thomas Fessy
A member of a gang in Niger says Boko Haram Islamist militants from Nigeria regularly come across the border, looking for recruits.
“We...
Addressing the fears of Niger indigenes on road durability
The commissioning of face one of the ongoing 103 kilometre Lapai-Gulu-Muye road project by Niger state government has attracted the attention of Nigerians from...
Cubans trace roots to remote Sierra Leone village
By Sarah Rainsford
For decades the Ganga-Longoba of Perico have been singing the same chants, a tradition passed down the generations.
But until recently this Afro-Cuban...
How ritual killings can be stopped in Nigeria
By Eric Olayinka Ayoola
Less than two weeks (March 2014) after the discovery of the forest of horror in Soka, Ibadan, Oyo state where a...
How clinics sell fake HIV certificates in Uganda
It is the tail-end of the morning rush-hour when I meet Sarah outside a popular supermarket in a suburb of Kampala. She is a young...
