Centre for Nigeria Progress

The 21-year-old victim was plucked from the streets of Lagos and promised a better life – but the reality was much different, as Thomas Kingsley reports <img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/05/04/16/trio.jpeg&quot; alt="<p>Ike Ekweremadu, 60 (right), his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, who were accused of treating the man and other potential donors as ‘disposable assets’Ike …

Continue reading "How UK police busted Nigerian senator’s organ harvesting plot at the last minute: ‘It was like a B movie’ by Thomas Kingsley"

This essay collection explores two decades of state-building in Iraq and the lessons to be learned. I grew up in exile. Throughout the 1990s, I met many exiled Iraqi political leaders opposed to Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq, including Ahmed Chalabi, who was one of the most influential and infamous voices that played a part …

Continue reading "Iraq 20 years on: Insider reflections on the war and its aftermath by Chatham House"

Crowds slowly take shape as we drive down a long dirt road cutting through Sfax's famed olive groves. Tunisia's coast guard says it has stopped 80 boats heading for Italy and detained more than 3,000 migrants, confirming at least 29 dead. However, a trafficker has said the real death toll is much higher. Dozens of …

Continue reading "‘I often find a corpse’: How Tunisia has become the deadly route of choice for migrants trying to make it to Europe By Yousra Elbagir"