Shola Lawal

ISIS

‘We Need to Wake Up’: How ISIS Made Africa Its Second Home

An eerily specific terror alert issued by Western governments for one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest areas points to a seemingly unlikely suspect: ISIS.
Shola Lawal
12.2.22
Djamel Ben Ismail

49 People Sentenced to Death for Killing Man Wrongly Blamed for Forest Fires

Djamel Ben Ismail had travelled to an area hit by forest fires in Algeria to try to help, but the artist was murdered by a mob who wrongly accused him of starting the blaze.
Shola Lawal
11.25.22
ebola

Uganda Held a Marathon for 25,000 People During an Ebola Outbreak

The government has denied that the race in Kampala was a super-spreader event, after some expressed anger that it was held in the middle of an epidemic.
Shola Lawal
11.22.22
Equatorial Guinea

World’s Longest-Serving President Re-Elected With 99 Percent of the Vote

No, not Xi Jinping.
Shola Lawal
11.21.22
migration

‘Brother, Help Me’: People Are Losing Limbs in Europe’s Forgotten Migrant Crisis

VICE World News spoke to the family of a Sri Lankan migrant who had his leg amputated and lost his five other toes to frostbite after being trapped in no-man’s land between Belarus and Lithuania.
Shola Lawal
11.17.22
Cough syrup tragedy

Families Whose Kids Died in Cough Syrup Scandal Offered $280 in Compensation

“We don’t want any money,” one parent in The Gambia told VICE World News. “We just want justice for our children.”
Shola Lawal
11.9.22
mount kilimanjaro

Climate-Induced Fires Are Killing One of the World’s Rarest Ecosystems

Drier temperatures are making wildfires on Mount Kilimanjaro more frequent, destroying a sacred ecosystem home to some of the planet's rarest plants and animals.
Shola Lawal
11.4.22
Ukraine

‘We’re Hostages’: African Students Trapped in Russian-Held City in Ukraine

Kherson was the first major city to fall to Russian forces after the invasion of Ukraine. Foreign students tell VICE World News they're being prevented from escaping.
Shola Lawal
Festus Iyorah
3.17.22
Boko Haram

Boko Haram Fighters Tortured These Women. Now They’re Neighbours.

Nigerian women who were abducted are being forced to live side by side with the Boko Haram militants who enslaved them, under a controversial government rehabilitation programme.
Shola Lawal
2.10.22
africa

In Nigeria, Gas Giants Get Rich As Women Sink into Poverty

Women in Niger Delta say gas flaring is destroying their land and livelihoods while international gas companies like Eni and Shell make millions of dollars.
Shola Lawal
6.10.21