Onize is WORLD’s Africa reporter and deputy global desk chief. She is a World Journalism Institute graduate and earned a journalism degree from Minnesota State University–Moorhead. Onize resides in Abuja, Nigeria.
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U.S. officials had allowed four asylum-seekers to remain in the country since the 1990s
More than 26,000 people have been arrested since the country enforced a state of emergency last year
