Fire destroys market in Nigeria’s second largest city, Kano

April 1, 2016 0

By John Campbell  | Newsweek Over the weekend—near the end of the Christian observance of Holy Week—a fire broke out in Kano’s Sabon Gari market. It eventually destroyed 3,800 shops, according to the Nigeria Emergency Management Administration (NEMA), 25

THE ‘WIVES’ OF BOKO HARAM

April 1, 2016 0

BY ANDY SPYRA  |  Foreignpolicy Laraba Bitrus was working in a small grocer’s shop in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza when Boko Haram militants invaded. With nowhere to run, the armed men took her 25

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