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In , her photography developed from hard news to a more documentary style with her work on the lives of volunteer suicide bombers and widows in the Gaza Strip. After becoming a NOOR full member in , she decided to move to Lagos, from where she could pursue her coverage of Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. Alongside, she became an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Nigeria in journalism.

Through a visual narrative and an aesthetic language that is meant to reflect and empower the Yoruba culture that celebrates twins, the two photographers extend their gaze beyond appearance - with symmetry and resemblance as tools- to open the eyes to the twin as a mythological figure and a powerful metaphor: for the duality within a human being and the duality we experience in the world that surrounds us.

Sexual and gender-based violence is an overlooked emergency in Haiti. One never finishes counting the dead in Nigeria. Each day there are new victims. Each day there are new attacks, more attacks, against churches, police stations or schools. The arc of this conflict without a name runs through a large part of the north of Nigeria: Maiduguri, Kano, Damturu, Gome; here are the cities of a devastated region where each neighborhood seems to be overrun by conflict.

Nuclear weapons proliferation, whether by state or nonstate actors, poses one of the greatest threats to international security today.

Plateau State and Jos have been the epicentre of sectarian violence which occurred repeatedly over the past ten years in the region of the Middle Belt. The roots of sectarian violence are many : access to ressources, power struggle, ethnicity etc NOOR Foundation. About Us. Selected Stories. Open the project.