Human Rights, African Stories
This podcast is about human rights and features Kenyan and Nigerian journalists, communicators, and campaigners who are working on the frontline. You'll learn about killer cops; bar room brawls; bandits; violent spouses; and corruption. But it’s also about the people who tell their stories. Written, produced and presented by Nick Raistrick for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
Human Rights, African Stories
ep 3 Modern Day Banditry
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It’s not just innocents getting caught in the crossfire; the security situation in Nigeria means that armed gangs are carrying out raids with impunity.
Anibe Idajili was funded by the IWPR to report on how the rights of children are being affected by ‘the insecurity’ in Niger State. Thousands of people are being displaced by bandits, and children’s right to an education is suffering.
Anibe's story is here:
https://www.thecable.ng/death-throes-in-nigerias-crisis-ridden-state-mothers-watch-as-hunger-batters-children
For more on ready-to-use therapeutic food, and to find out how UNICEF is using it to save lives, click here:
https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/RUTF