Maiduguri

A family of men sit on a porch and cry with their heads down.

In Nigeria, Twitter therapists and ‘tuk-tuk’ counselors make up for a gap in mental health care

Health & Medicine

There are only eight psychiatric hospitals to serve more than 190 million citizens in Nigeria. To close the gap, nonprofits throughout the country are finding new ways to reach out to people in desperate need of care, from online Twitter therapy sessions to community outreach via motorized trikes. 

Police and emergency workers investigate a bombing scene in Kano, Nigeris, on November 29, 2014.

Nigerians are ‘desperate’ for intervention as Boko Haram steps up its attacks

Conflict
What's left of the state boarding school in Chibok, a remote town in northeast Nigeria Borno State. On April 14, Boko Haram militants raided the school on April 14th in search of food. They found the girls and kidnapped them. More than 200 are still missi

The town where the Nigerian girls were kidnapped is the heartland of Boko Haram

Conflict & Justice

Nigerian Army’s ‘Ruthless’ Tactics Fail to Crush Islamic Militants

Conflict & Justice