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Nigerian government critic still missing one year on

It has been a year since outspoken government critic Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata, went missing from his home in Kaduna state in northern Nigeria. The International Committee of the Red Cross says he is one out of nearly 23,000 missing people in the country, the largest number of missing people in any African nation. On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, friends, family and activists are again demanding his safe return home. Olivia Ndubuisi reports.

(Photo: Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata. Credit: Dadiyata/ Twitter)

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