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A modern government administrative building in Nigeria, the kind of compound where federal agencies including the National Population Commis

Only 40% of births registered in Nigeria — NPC

Nigeria’s National Population Commission (NPC) has said that only around 40 percent of births in the country are officially registered, according to Vanguard News. The figure underscores the long-standing challenge Nigeria faces in capturing vital statistics for its population, widely regarded as the largest in Africa. The NPC, established in 1988, is the federal agency […]

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A displaced mother holding an infant in a temporary displacement shelter, with administrative paperwork scattered nearby.

Sudan’s invisible children: born in war, denied legal identity

The civil war in Sudan has produced a generation of children whose very existence is denied by the state. According to BBC News, babies born as a result of rape during the conflict are often unable to obtain a birth certificate, condemning them to a lifetime of legal invisibility. Since fighting erupted between the Sudanese

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