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Despite last year’s riots, South Africa has been ranked 118 out of 163 countries in the 2022 Global Peace Index. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP

South Africa ranks 118 out of 163 in the 2022 Global Peace Index

It is a marginal improvement, according to the study, but while the country is progressively more peaceful, it is tarnished with violent outbreaks of crime and protests

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

Twitter back in Nigeria after seven-month blackout

The ban shocked many in Nigeria, where Twitter has had a major role in political discourse, with the hashtags #BringBackOurGirls after Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls…

Behind bars: Damilare Adenola was arrested during a Lagos protest against police brutality in February this year. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP

Freeing Nigeria’s unjustly imprisoned

Too many Nigerians are stuck in prison for longer than allowed by law – sometimes for crimes they did not commit

Police brutality: Nigerian youths say they are being profiled and their emails and text messages seized and read by the now supposedly disbanded Sars unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
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Nollywood’s political struggle

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the #EndSARS protests?

Nigeria’s women on the front line

They led the October 72-hour demonstration against a brutal police squad, following the examples that date back to the 1910 Women’s War

Fed up: Demonstrators protest police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria, on October 20 this year. The Nigerian government imposed a 24-hour curfew to clamp down on protests against Sars, a police division accused of abuse. Photo by Adetona Omokanye/Getty Images)

Nigeria’s queers say ‘enough’

Notorious police unit that harassed LGBTQ+ community disbanded after widespread protests.

Activists protesting police brutality by the Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) demonstrate in Parliament Square in London, England, on October 21, 2020. SARS has been accused of extrajudicial killings, extortion and torture, prompting demonstrations across Nigeria that have seen at least 56 people killed by Nigerian security forces in recent weeks, according to human rights group Amnesty International. The dead include at least 12 at two locations in Lagos – Lekki and Alausa – on Tuesday, it said, among some 38 people killed yesterday across the country as a whole. (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Facebook, Instagram indiscriminately flag #EndSars posts as fake news

Fact-checking is appropriate but the platforms’ scattershot approach has resulted in genuine information and messages about Nigerians’ protest against police brutality being…

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Editorial: A failure of leadership in Nigeria

For as long as there has been an independent Nigeria, its government has been killing its people.

Nigerian youths seen waving the Nigerian national flag in front of a crowd in support of the ongoing protest against the unjust brutality of The Nigerian Police Force Unit named Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on October 13, 2020. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty

Unite with Nigeria’s ‘Speak Up’ generation protesting against police brutality

Photos of citizens draped in the bloodied flag have spread around the world in the month the country should be celebrating 60 years of independence

Protester hold hands to barricade the protesters from the men of the Nigerian Police force as protesters march at Alausa Secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos State, during a peaceful demonstration against police brutality in Nigeria, on October 20, 2020. Authorities of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sonwo-Olu has imposed a 24-hours curfew on the state effective 4pm on Tuesday, due to the violent attacks on police officers and innocent Nigerians.  (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Nigerian government is killing its citizens — again

‘Nigeria kills its people. Nigeria has always killed its people.’