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There have been reports of shooting at the location of an #EndSARS protest in Lekki, a wealthy suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. A number of people are reported killed and

THREADIn 2019, #BBCAfricaEye found a series of disturbing videos—many too graphic to share—on social media. They show detainees bound in a particular way. And almost all of them were filmed

And then, in 2019, we found a serving police officer who gave us a disturbing eyewitness account of what happens inside one SARS station.For his own safety, we’ve hidden his

On March 15 2020, a pipeline explosion in Lagos killed 23 people.Nigeria’s state oil firm @NNPCGroup said the blast was caused by a truck that hit some gas cylinders. It’s

THREADIn July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced

Libya, Jan 2020. CCTV shows a group of young men in the last 5 seconds of their lives.Moments later, they’re hit by a strike for which no one has ever

For decades, Nigeria's healthcare sector has been saddled with various challenges. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown how medical services in the country are greatly underserved. So what exactly is