Saturday, April 4, 2015

‘It Is Survival of the Fittest Here’

 Nigeria's IDP camps, residents fight over bags of rice and live in constant fear of attack from the surrounding communities. Can the country's newly elected president finally rally the government to their cause?


‘It Is Survival of the Fittest Here’ BY HILARY MATFESS-APRIL 3, 2015
Foreign PolicyABUJA, Nigeria – Tucked behind a brightly painted international primary school and wedged between a series of construction projects sits Abuja’s Kuchigoro Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp. It houses some 1,400 men, women, and children who now live in a series of huts built mostly from refuse, though empty grain sacks and plastic church banners are the most common construction material here.
‘It Is Survival of the Fittest Here’.odt by Thavam Ratna