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Choosing peace: Mothers and children collect water in an internally displaced persons camp in Borno State, Nigeria. More than two million have been displaced during the conflict with Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province. Photo: Sally Hayden/Getty Images)

Inside Nigeria’s centres for jihadists and their captives

How the Nigerian government’s plan got more than 90 000 people formerly associated with Boko Haram and Iswap to defect

  • Louise Dewast
7 min read
Polling clerks start to count the votes at a polling station after completing the voting process of the general election in Lagos, Nigeria on February 25, 2023. Nigeria will elect the President and Vice President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives. (Photo by Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
NIGERIA

Nigeria awaits first results after tight election

The voting was carried out mostly peacefully, despite some ransacked polling stations and long delays

  • Camille Malplat
  • Louise Dewast
4 min read
Waiting: Refugees from many countries including those in Africa sit near the Medyka pedestrian border crossing with Poland to flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
AFRICAN UNION

African governments scramble to help its citizens in Ukraine

Africans, among them South Africans, Nigerians, Ghanains, Congolese and Ivorians, are trying to flee into Poland and other countries neighbouring Ukraine

  • Louise Dewast
4 min read
Critics worry President Kabila is trying to ensure his favoured successor, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, faces no serious challenger. (Reuters)
COMMON FRONT FOR CONGO

DRC’s Kabila backs ex-interior minister for vote: spokesperson

The announcement came just hours before the deadline for lodging applications for the December 23 election

  • Louise Dewast
  • Samir Tounsi
3 min read
President Joseph Kabila’s tenure over the vast mineral-rich country has been marked by a reputation for corruption, inequality and unrest. (Kenny Katombe/Reuters)
COMMON FRONT FOR CONGO

All eyes on Kabila as DRC election deadline looms

Eight candidates including at least three from the opposition have already submitted their names

  • Louise Dewast
3 min read