Delivering babies in a Nigerian camp: ‘I’ve had to use plastic bags as gloves’
After seeing a woman die in childbirth, Liyatu Ayuba stepped in and has now delivered 118 babies in a community cut off from public health services Having watched a woman…
WHO: COVID-19 vaccination triples in Africa but still low
The Africa director of the World Health Organization says the continent was able to triple its COVID-19 vaccination rate over the past week, helped by growing numbers of donations of…
‘Devastating’: how UK’s foreign aid cuts could hurt the world’s poorest
Data analysis highlights the human cost if thousands of overseas projects lose funding Experts have warned of “devastating” consequences of the UK’s foreign aid cuts after Guardian analysis revealed the…
‘We need to stop talking about jollof rice’: Lagos chef aims to ‘conjure pride’ in Nigerian food
Michael Elégbèdé doesn’t just break from western ideas of fine dining, but aims to revive a deeper appreciation of Nigerian food among Nigerians, too After wine and canapes on a…
Summer in the city: A Igoni Barrett on a rainy bus ride in Lagos
The writer on a stressful commute in Nigeria’s largest city on a day of downpours in 2007 • Read other authors on their memorable urban summers It had been raining…
‘An economic calamity’: Africa faces years of post-Covid instability
Damage from pandemic could quash ambitions, exacerbate tensions and deepen repression in parts of continent Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Analysts and experts are warning of…
Shell to pay $111m over decades-old oil spills in Nigeria
Company maintains oil spills in 1970 were caused by third parties during civil war Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay around €95m (£80.4m/$111.6m) to communities in southern Nigeria over…
More than 200 children remain abducted in Nigeria amid ‘kidnap epidemic’
Schools in north of country have become prime targets for ‘bandits’ with 1,000 students taken this year More than 200 schoolchildren remain abducted by armed “bandit” groups in northern Nigeria,…
Chibok schoolgirl freed in Nigeria seven years after Boko Haram kidnap, governor says
Girl and someone she says she married during captivity surrendered themselves to military One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents…