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Owo, Nigeria

A police officer stands guard

inside the St Francis Catholic church a day after an attack.

Gunmen launched an assault on the church during mass,

killing more than 50 people

Photograph: Sunday Alamba
AP

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The shelling of Sievierodonetsk, the aftermath of Hurricane Agatha,

wildfires near Brasília and the Queen’s

platinum jubilee celebrations in London:

the most striking global images this week

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Fri 10 Jun 2022    19.45 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jun/10/
the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures

It has been hard to juggle classes and work,

and deal with the stigma,

but Ajayi says she is not ashamed to wear a school uniform

Photograph: Temilade Adelaja

Reuters

The Nigerian woman starting school at 50 – in pictures

It’s never too late to learn, says 50-year-old Shade Ajayi,

who attends Ilorin grammar school in Kwara state, Nigeria

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Fri 2 Apr 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/apr/02/
nigerian-woman-starting-school-at-50-in-pictures

How Elite Nigerian Soldiers

Massacred Unarmed Religious Marchers

NYT    17 December 2018

Biafra became an international rallying cry,

with protest marches like this one in London

in January 1969.

Photograph: Bob Aylott

Keystone Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

Dermot Doran, Priest Who Rallied Aid for Biafran Airlift, Dies at 88

late 1960s - 1970 > Biafra > Biafran war        USA

It was December 1968,

and Nigeria was in the midst of a civil war.

After nearly a decade of pogroms against them,

the Igbo people of the country’s southeastern states

had seceded to form the independent republic of Biafra.

The Nigerian Army almost immediately attacked,

and it soon had a blockade around the region,

leaving 14 million residents to starve.

Father Doran was one of 1,000 priests and nuns,

mostly from Ireland,

who had been working in the area

when the fighting broke out.

Overnight,

they pivoted from their peacetime roles as educators

— Father Doran had been a high school principal —

to aid workers during one of the 20th century’s

worst humanitarian crises.

Overall, the Biafran airlift brought

60,000 tons of aid to the region, at the time

the largest mobilization of aid by civilians

in history.

Between 500,000 and two million noncombatants

died because of the blockade

— but an estimated one million more survived

because of the airlift.