Boko Haram Refugees Find Safety in Niger

• Prize
  Winner in Press / Photography
• Company
  Getty Images Reportage
• Lead
  Giles Clarke
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• Team
  Andrew Katz
• Client
  TIME

Increasing Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria has led to mass displacement in neighboring Niger. Some 200,000 Nigerians have fled since 2018. The rising instability in the entire Sahel region has created an alarming, lawless vacuum, creating hotbeds for Islamic Jihadist insurgents and marauding local militias which, in turn, has left millions of civilians vulnerable as the unrest grows.

Giles Clarke is a British-born, New York–based photojournalist whose work focuses on conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises around the world. Clarke has documented life on the frontlines in countries including Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Somalia, Libya, and Iraq. A contributor to Getty Images Reportage and a long-term collaborator with UN agencies, his work combines intimate storytelling with investigative reporting, giving voice to communities often overlooked and highlighting the human consequences of war, migration, and political upheaval.