Stories

In northeast Nigeria, the night has long been a source of dread for expectant mothers. In a region where insecurity and displacement have pushed healthcare out of reach, the onset of labour after sundown

In 2025, nutrition supply chains were severely disrupted because of widespread funding cuts. These shortages of essential therapeutic and supplementary nutrition products severely impacted services for children already suffering from acute malnutrition.

The chants precede his actual arrival. Women and children sing as Salisu Adamu, a UNICEF-supported mobiliser, and his colleagues go from house to house in the Mairi area of Damaturu, in North-East Nigeria’s Yobe State.

This is the story of Happy and Goodness. When Happy was abducted from her village in northern Nigeria in May 2024, Goodness was not yet born.

When the Alau dam in Nigeria’s Borno state burst its banks after incessant rains pounded the region in early September 2024, a disaster of apocalyptic proportions unfolded. The state capital, Maiduguri, was deluged in no time.

With EU humanitarian funding, the IRC has been able to offer young girls in north-eastern Nigeria spaces where they can learn in a supportive and nurturing environment.

Have you heard about mindfulness? It is a type of meditation involving breathing methods and other practices to help reduce stress.

For over a decade, armed conflict in the Northeastern Nigeria has caused massive population displacements and hindered basic access to essential services. As a result, humanitarian needs are deepening, with over 8 million people in need.

Nigeria is a country facing multiple crises simultaneously: conflict in the Northeast, growing violence in the Northwest and in the Middle Belt, and Cameroonian refugees in the South.

There’s one thing that Abari cannot stand: being underestimated. “I want to do everything that the people that can see are doing,”

Never have so many millions faced starvation in the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria).