nigeria

Africa has the world’s youngest population and its oldest leaders. If the next generation wants change, young Africans must abandon dreams of private-sector success and enter the political arena.

The Amazon is ablaze, world leaders convene for the G-7, and Nigeria marks a global health milestone.

The country’s vaccinators have overcome distrust, misinformation, and an insurgency to reach this point, but they can’t stop yet.

The war against Boko Haram saw kids drafted by both sides. Now they need assistance and a post-conflict future.

Beijing’s infrastructure projects may grab headlines, but its efforts to shape the media are more dangerous.

Scammed by opportunistic agents, African students seeking a future in the EU have ended up stuck in Northern Cyprus—some of them left for dead.

Chronic poverty may be on the decline, but too many families still face cyclical poverty.

Armed groups are slipping into Nigeria and appealing to the Cameroonian diaspora to fuel their fight for a breakaway state.

The amorphous Boko Haram splinter group is taking inspiration where it can get it and bringing disaster to the Lake Chad Basin in the process.

In countries around the world, progress defies the backlash.

Buhari promised an end to graft and corruption. Now he’ll have to deliver.

Nigeria shows that economic growth combined with rising inequality won’t lift people out of poverty. The country’s next government should heed the lesson.

From the border wall to billionaire presidential candidates.

Articles to read ahead of a crucial vote.

Apathetic voters are planning to boycott this weekend’s election—and may inadvertently boost the country’s most fervent separatists.

The issue of restructuring the country’s delicate federal system has long been off limits. Both candidates have now put it front and center, ensuring that reforms are on the way.

Nigerians fleeing violence at home are being kicked out of northern Cameroon and being sent back to areas terrorized by Boko Haram.