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AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories, 13 – 19 July 2026 AHR’s Top 10 health stories the week

AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories, 13 – 19 July 2026

Mirian Gom July 20, 2026

✍️ Editor’s Note The week of July 13–19, 2026 was marked by stories that exposed the realities...

‘We Farm Under the Shadow of Death’: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Deepening Hunger Crisis Conflict, Banditry and Funding Cuts Leave 17 Million Facing Starvation

Conflict, Banditry and Funding Cuts Leave 17 Million Facing Starvation

‘We Farm Under the Shadow of Death’: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Deepening Hunger Crisis

Hussaini Ibrahim July 19, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – For millions of families across northern Nigeria, hunger is no longer driven by drought...

Kebbi Defends School Closures Over Bandit Threats Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris

Kebbi Defends School Closures Over Bandit Threats

Hussaini Ibrahim July 9, 2026

KEBBI, Nigeria – The Kebbi school closures in communities affected by banditry will remain in place until...

FCDO, WRAHP Train Northern CSOs to Combat Sexual Abuse, Harassment Participants attending safeguarding and sexual abuse prevention training organised by FCDO and WRAHP in Abuja.

Participants attending safeguarding and sexual abuse prevention training organised by FCDO and WRAHP in Abuja.

FCDO, WRAHP Train Northern CSOs to Combat Sexual Abuse, Harassment

Mirian Gom June 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Women’s Rights and Health Project...

Kano Orthopaedic Hospital Receives State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Equipment NNPC Foundation officials unveiling a 1.5 Tesla MRI machine at National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala in Kano.

NNPC Foundation officials unveiling a 1.5 Tesla MRI machine at National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala in Kano.

Kano Orthopaedic Hospital Receives State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Equipment

Mirian Gom June 5, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – The NNPC Foundation has donated a cutting-edge 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system...

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health Children carrying jerrycans while searching for water before school in Kano.

Children carrying jerrycans while searching for water before school in Kano.

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health

Hussaini Ibrahim May 25, 2026

KANO, Nigeria — Before sunrise each day across Kano metropolis, thousands of children begin exhausting journeys not...

Stolen Future: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Deepening Classroom Catastrophe children hawking on the street

Stolen Future: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Deepening Classroom Catastrophe

Hussaini Ibrahim May 17, 2026

Under the scorching heat of Kano’s Kurna Asabe district, 13-year-old Bashir weaves through traffic selling sachet water...

Northern Nigeria’s Silent Crisis: Teenage Pregnancy Derails Futures, Deepens Poverty Teenage mother holding child in Kano community

Northern Nigeria’s Silent Crisis: Teenage Pregnancy Derails Futures, Deepens Poverty

Mirian Gom March 24, 2026

KANO, NIGERIA – Beneath the hum of daily life in Northern Nigeria, a quiet crisis is unfolding—one...

Shehu Sani Urges Local Vigilance Against Northern Insecurity Former Senator Shehu Sani speaking at a press briefing on political integrity

Shehu Sani Urges Local Vigilance Against Northern Insecurity

Oluwatobi Adu January 17, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Former Senator Shehu Sani has called for grassroots participation in combating insecurity in northern...

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis? Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Mirian Gom January 16, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – A child who is not in school is not just missing lessons — they...

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AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories, 13 – 19 July 2026

‘We Farm Under the Shadow of Death’: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Deepening Hunger Crisis

Kebbi Defends School Closures Over Bandit Threats

FCDO, WRAHP Train Northern CSOs to Combat Sexual Abuse, Harassment

Kano Orthopaedic Hospital Receives State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Equipment

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health

Stolen Future: Inside Northern Nigeria’s Deepening Classroom Catastrophe

Northern Nigeria’s Silent Crisis: Teenage Pregnancy Derails Futures, Deepens Poverty

Shehu Sani Urges Local Vigilance Against Northern Insecurity

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

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