Libyan war widows learn to earn a living, and a pilot in South Africa is teaching girls to soar.
Jul 30

By William Brangham, Jason Kane
Modern-day human trafficking begins in places like rural Nigeria, where young people dream of economic opportunity and a better life for their families, and are willing to give up everything to try and find it. But as many Nigerians learn,…
Russia, Nigeria and Florida are three of the regions hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS crisis. The PBS NewsHour will be joined on Twitter on June 26 at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss why the AIDS epidemic continues to cripple these…
Jun 13

By William Brangham, Jason Kane
Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission is considered one of the most basic goals for curtailing the AIDS epidemic, and Nigeria is struggling mightily. In our series The End of AIDS, William Brangham and Jason Kane examine why this oil-rich nation is…
The president said Monday at the news conference with Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari that he had nothing for which to apologize.
Mar 23

By Larisa Epatko
"They kept us in a big, covered house where no-one could spot where we were, even by air we could not be seen," one of the girls said.
Mar 21

By Haruna Umar and Ismail Alfa Abdulrahim, Associated Press
Boko Haram extremists returned almost all of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said Wednesday.
Nov 21

By PBS NewsHour
In our news wrap Tuesday, at least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Nigeria. Also, the U.S. military said it killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants in a recent airstrike in Somalia…

By Elizabeth Flock
Nollywood is now the world’s second largest film industry in terms of number of films produced. Here's how it happened.
Aug 23

By Synclaire Cruel
The radical militant group Boko Haram has already used four times as many child suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria this year than it did in 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported Tuesday.
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