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Police brutality, including extrajudicial killings, has become a hot topic globally. This is also in evidence in Africa, where civil society activists frequently stage protests over failure by governments to introduce and enforce proper oversight over the police, in particular the specialised units created to deal with specific crimes. This failure by governments allows perpetrators to get away without punishment. Such protests were witnessed in Nigeria recently following a viral video of the extrajudicial killing of a man at the hands of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the federal police. Lanre Ikuteyijo explains why the ban on the special police unit following the protests falls short of what’s required
to end bad policing in Nigeria.
Over 820 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, and that tide is rising. For working to reverse it, the U.N. World Food Program has received the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. As the Nobel Peace Prize award makes clear, a world of peace and stability hinges upon everyone’s receiving the most basic of human dignities: the food they need to live. However, while the focus that the Nobel committee has brought to hunger and
conflict is welcome and very much needed, it must be addressed as a matter of urgency – but not by WFP
alone.
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Ogechi Ekeanyanwu
Commissioning Editor: Nigeria
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Young Nigerians protesting against the excesses of a special police squad in the country.
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Lanre Ikuteyijo, Obafemi Awolowo University
The dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad is the first step, but Nigeria needs a complete reform of its police.
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Susanne Jaspars, SOAS, University of London
The World Food Programme can't stop hunger on its own – that also requires political action.
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Jessica Eise, Purdue University
Over 820 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, and that tide is rising. For working to reverse it, the U.N. World Food Program has received the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Health + Medicine
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John Bergeron, McGill University
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Sarah Pitt, University of Brighton
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Business + Economy
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Gavin Brown, University of Liverpool
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Marcia Kwaramba, University of Colorado Boulder
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Arts + Culture
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Paul Onanuga, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Adam Behr, Newcastle University
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