Nigeria

Members of the FCT taskforce on COVID-19 are seen washing their hands during the inspection of the Holy Trinity Catholic church, as worship centers were reopened following the ease of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abuja, Nigeria June 7, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Future Development

How well has Nigeria responded to COVID-19?

Siddharth Dixit, Yewande Kofoworola Ogundeji, and Obinna Onwujekwe

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Student teacher with kids at home/school (credits: dRPC, Kano December 2019)

Education Plus Development

Reflections on innovation in girls’ education in Nigeria

Judith-Ann Walker

Friday, June 26, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza talks to the media after casting his ballot at a voting station during the presidential, legislative and communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ngozi, Burundi May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Clovis Guy Siboniyo/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: African economic growth, Nigeria, and Burundi updates

Christina Golubski and Mary Treacy

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Nigeria

Fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adam Day

Hybrid Wars with Adam Day

Friday, June 12, 2020

Reports

Sons of Onyeka Oguaghamba, one of the Nigerian men arrested on charges of public display of affection with members of the same sex, walk to school in Lagos, Nigeria, February 11, 2020. Oguaghamba says he was sleeping outside the hotel in car at the time of the raid and was caught up in the arrests. While he was in police detention, Oguaghamba said, his four boys were told their father had been on television. "I felt so bad, although they didn't understand what gay means," he said. "They asked me - why police arrested me and they were showing me on television. I explained to them that the police can arrest anybody at any time." REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja SEARCH "NIGERIA LGBT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Terrorism & Extremism

Education and Boko Haram in Nigeria

Madiha Afzal

April 2020

A member of the local militia, otherwise known as CJTF, Baba Gana, holds a gun as he sits in the back of a truck during a patrol in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 9, 2017. Picture taken June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye.

Nigeria

Militias (and militancy) in Nigeria’s north-east: Not going away

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A girl displaced as a result of Boko Haram attacks in the northeast region of Nigeria, uses a mortar and pestle at a camp for internally displaced people in Yola, Adamawa State January 14, 2015. Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those in its territory life is a litany of killings, kidnappings, hunger and economic collapse. Picture taken January 14. To match Insight NIGERIA-BOKOHARAM/ REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY EDUCATION) - GM1EB1K12UW01

Report

Building resilience and resistance to child, early, and forced marriage through acquiring skills

Judith-Ann Walker

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Shoppers walk during the opening of the 'Mall of Africa' in Midrand outside Johannesburg, South Africa April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - D1AETAYSBVAB

Developing Economies

Africa’s consumer market potential

Landry Signé

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

DATE IMPORTED: June 15, 2017 Members of the local militia, otherwise known as CJTF, sit in the back of a truck during a patrol in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 9, 2017. Picture taken June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye.

Nigeria

“In Nigeria, we don’t want them back”

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018

Blog Posts

Members of the GKB academy, a unicycle club, return from school to the academy in Lagos, Nigeria October 11, 2019. Picture taken October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Order from Chaos

The fundamental connection between education and Boko Haram in Nigeria

Madiha Afzal

Thursday, May 7, 2020

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA- Children wait in line to eat amid the coronavirus crisis in Cape Town, South Africa on April 30, 2020. Entrepreneurs and foundations have teamed up to feed children in the area. Approximately 300 children are fed daily since the onset of the coronavirus quarantine. (NO RESALE)

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: COVID-19, Côte d’Ivoire, and Safaricom updates

Christina Golubski and Payce Madden

Saturday, May 2, 2020

A man cycles past a military truck in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde SEARCH "BAMA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Order from Chaos

As conflict intensifies in Nigeria’s North East, so too does a reliance on troubled militias

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

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Events

2020

May

Past Event

CANCELED — Webinar: Jihadism at a crossroads

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A discussion on Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok girls

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

The limits of punishment: Transitional justice and violent extremism

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Washington, DC

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Experts

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

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Madiha Afzal

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Center for Middle East Policy

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Yun Sun

Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative

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Multimedia

Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Podcast Episode

Why Boko Haram in Nigeria fights western education

Madiha Afzal and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, April 17, 2020

Africa in Focus

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: Nigeria and the resilience of the Chibok Girls

Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

A view of the Yaba district in Lagos June 25, 2015. At first glance, Yaba is like many other parts of Nigeria's sprawling commercial capital: a cacophony of car horns and shouting street vendors, mingling with exhaust fumes and the occasional stench of sewage. But in between the run-down buildings in this seemingly inauspicious part of Lagos, a city of around 21 million, tech start-ups are taking root and creating a buzz that is drawing international venture capitalists and more established digital firms. Picture taken June 25, 2015. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX1M6LS

Up Front

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development hacks, and the power of digital record-keeping

Merrell Tuck-Primdahl and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

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