How Nigeria's Fear of Child 'Witchcraft' Ruins Young Lives
Abandonment, persecution, violence: childhoods are lost as young Nigerians are branded as witches.
Abandonment, persecution, violence: childhoods are lost as young Nigerians are branded as witches.
From Lagos to Onitsha and Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s southern region suffers off-the-charts air pollution. Leaders are doing little to help.
Two engineers at the University of Kentucky want to give farmers an easy way to prevent a prevalent problem: aflatoxin contamination, which has global economic and health effects.
Buried alive, poisoned, scarred by acid - these are just some of the fates that have befallen Nigerian children accused of witchcraft. This BBC feature examines the root causes of these attacks.
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A unique, church-based program is leading the fight against mother-to-child HIV transmission in Nigeria.
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Use Uber, get a local phone number, and above all, don't schedule more than two sit-down interviews a day.
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Sometimes even emergency surgery must wait until the patient can pay—even if he's not yet born.
As Nigeria works to “re-brand” itself from a post-colonial military state to a progressive African democracy, political, civic and professional leaders have recognized the most intractable problem for this emerging society is also its most treatable: maternal and infant mortality.
Fred de Sam Lazaro presents a series of reports from around the world, examining the intersections of food, food policy, and food security.
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Four African journalists have been selected to participate in the Pulitzer Center's collaborative reproductive health-reporting project.
Tom Hundley recaps the Pulitzer Center's week, highlighting a new series of Untold Stories from grantee Jenna Krajeski who is reporting on Kurdish youngsters jailed on harsh anti-terrorism laws.
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro is the recipient of the 2011 Nafis Sadik Award for Courage.
The Pulitzer Center announces the West African journalists who will attend World Water Week in Stockholm and report on water and sanitation in their home countries.
Lifting the veil on the creative process, filmmaker Dawn Sinclair Shapiro recounts challenges and successes behind crafting "The Edge of Joy," an issue-driven documentary on maternal health in Nigeria.
The Pulitzer Center partnered with CUNY on "The World Through Women's Eyes," a film festival highlighting work by and about women around the world.
The Economist Film Project, a film documentary contest in partnership with PBS Newshour has selected "The Edge of Joy" as one of its first round winners.