Development efforts by local authorities in a bid to deal with urbanisation have increased incidences of forced evictions, sometimes with deadly consequences The bulldozers arrived late at night after residents of Otodo Gbame, a waterfront community in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, had retired for the day. Backed by armed police and machete-wielding men, the excavators […]

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