Nigeria
Reports, writes, edits, broadcasts. Based in Lagos, Nigeria since 2014. TV, radio, online and print. CBC freelance correspondent, France 24, NPR, ABC, RTE amongst others. Previously based in Paris, Mumbai, London. Ex BBC staff.
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The United Nations is calling on Canada to do more to help starving people in northeast Nigeria, victims of the fallout from Boko Haram's seven-year-long Islamist insurgency, warning that 4.5 million people in the northeast of the country are "living on the edge" and could die if nothing is done.
When 276 Nigerian girls went to school two years ago, 219 of them never came home. The human rights group Amnesty International has called for the Nigerian government to "do all it lawfully can to bring an end to the agony of the parents of the Chibok girls and all those abducted."
NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Anna Cunningham, who covers Nigeria for CBC News, about the Nigerian military's announcement that they rescued girls abducted by Boko Haram. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The news out of Nigeria this week was dramatic and encouraging, but also distressing.
Deborah, Blessing and Mary giggle as they snap photos of one another on their cellphones and tablets, before sitting down to speak to CBC News. The trio are wearing bright headscarves, but are still too frightened to show their faces on television and only use their middle names, fearing Boko Haram reprisals against their families.
Saraya is now safe from Boko Haram, living in a slum in Yola, the capital of Adawama state in northeast Nigeria. But what the radical Islamist group did still haunts her. "I have suffered so much from Boko Haram," the 22-year-old told CBC News, wiping tears from her eyes with her headscarf.