As The Fellowship Reaches the Halfway Mark, Fellows Are Making The Best of The Time Left… |
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As we reach the halfway mark of our fellowship, the fellows have been picking up the pace in a bid to report the accountability gaps in the communities before the programme comes to an end in November.
Three months in, the selected fellows have published reports around the crucial issues affecting communities in their senatorial districts within the BAY states such as water scarcity, deforestation, and flooding.
The monthly training sessions have also continued to provide them with the required expertise and knowledge they require on climate change, citizen engagement at the grassroots, reporting on cases of SGBV, budget monitoring and tracking around humanitarian funding, as well as ethical reporting as community journalists. These modules have provided our fellows with the opportunity to build their capacity through mentorship, to ensure they are well equipped when they go out to the field and ask the relevant questions.
We’re confident that the best is yet to come in terms of output from our fellows, and that they will continue to tell the important and underreported issues affecting their home communities. Don’t forget, to foll0w the latest with the fellowship by checking out the hashtag, #HumAngleFellowship22 on Twitter. |
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Resettled IDPs In Borno Community Are Crossing To Cameroon For Potable Water |
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| “When you return poor people to their community without water to drink, it makes them think about going back to where they came from.” |
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Usman Abba Zanna (Fellow, Borno South) |
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One of the consequences of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is that families get separated across states ‒ and sometimes across countries. While Abba Gole camped at a displacement camp in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, his daughter was flung as far away as Cameroon. But earlier this year, she learned that her father and other community members were resettled back in Kirawa, so she came home.
A few days after her return, Gole woke up very thirsty. There was no water in the house, as was so often the case because of a general scarcity in Kirawa. So she had to go to the neighbour’s house to fetch some for him to drink. The water was unclean and contaminated, but she did not know this. |
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| Aisha Adamu Njidda was selected as our fellow of the month for August, after diligently producing two reports, travelling around Adamawa state, and using the knowledge gained from the training in her reportage.
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Worst Flood In Decades, Devastates Communities In Northeast Nigeria |
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| At least 11 people were killed after a river overflowed its banks in Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe. The disaster is considered the worst in decades. |
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(Usman Muhammad (Fellow, Yobe East) Heavy flooding led to the death of about 11 people and widespread destruction in Gujba and Gulani Local Government Areas of eastern Yobe state in Northeast Nigeria. The overflow of a local river caused the disaster.
For families in Buni-Gari, Ligdir, Garin Doya, Kukuwa -Tasha and Bumsa, Bara, Gurui, Dokshi, Bularafa, Garin-Tuwo, Teteba, Njubulwa Sabai communities, July would be remembered due to the impact of the flood that swept through their communities and led to the loss of relatives and friends. |
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