Tag: Nigeria

In an attempt to curb the smuggling of goods, Nigeria closed its land borders without warning this August. Hameed Ali, ...

Last week in South Africa, violence ravaged the country. Foreign-owned shops were the target of looting and torching. Besides shops ...

The concept that women’s rights activism and women’s empowerment are tasks for women and women-led organizations is indeed obsolete and ...

Abraham and George are auto mechanics with large shops in a southeastern city of Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. A visit ...

There exist a dozen or so articles focused on inspiring us to grow our own food, with titles such as: ...

The world is uniting behind the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While there are different approaches and different focuses from global ...

Today’s release of the 2017 Global Terrorism Index highlights welcome news for Nigeria. The sub-Sahara African nation has been beleaguered ...

EDITOR’S NOTE:  THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY UN WOMEN AS PART OF THE SERIES “FROM WHERE I STAND”, WHICH CAPTURES PEOPLES STORIES ...

Famine was supposed to be a thing of the past. True, 75 million people had died from starvation in the ...

Gender equality and women´s empowerment are essential to transform our world. Gender inequality affects women and girls in every country, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY SAVIO CARVOLHO, A SENIOR ADVISOR OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. THIS PIECE IS PART OF A SERIES EXPLORING ...

In 2003, the Concorde stopped ferrying international passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at supersonic speeds, while metaphorically demonstrating how much ...