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Sahara Reporters. Sahara Reporters is a news agency based in New York City that focuses on promoting citizen journalism by encouraging everyday people to report stories about corruption, human rights abuses and other political misconduct in Africa, with special focus on Nigeria. [2][3] Sahara Reporters specializes in exposing corruption and ...
Omoyele Yele Sowore (born 16 February 1971) is a Nigerian politician, human rights activist, citizen reporter, writer, lecturer and pro-democracy campaigner, known for founding the online news agency Sahara Reporters. [1][2][3] In August 2018, he founded the African Action Congress party and ran as its presidential candidate in the 2019 ...
Online newspapers have also been able to bypass government restrictions because content can be shared without the need for any physical infrastructure. The result has been a disruption of the traditional sources of news which have dominated the media industry. Recent online newspapers include Sahara Reporters, Ripples Nigeria, and Premium Times ...
September 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM. There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places ...
Western Sahara[ a ] is a disputed territory in North-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). [ 3 ] Approximately 30% of the territory (82,500 km 2 (31,900 sq mi)) is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is occupied [ 4 ][ 5 ] and administered by neighboring ...
Some Nigerians have turned to social media platforms like Tiktok as a way to cope with stress. Some find support in communities wherever they can, from the church or mosque to the gym. And now ...
In 2009, after graduate school, Fayehun worked at CUNY TV as a TV news producer. During this time she wrote and produced a feature on Sahara Reporters's Omoyele Sowore, who she later went on to work with in a behind-the-scenes capacity at Sahara Reporters. [11] In 2010, Fayehun became a U.S. correspondent for the Nigerian newspaper, The Nation.
Atiku Abubakar GCON ((listen ⓘ); born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as the vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. [1][2][3] He ran for the office of governor of Adamawa State in 1990 and 1996 unsuccessfully, but won in 1998. [4]