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| Protesters at the End Sars rally |
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns in Nigeria, rising violence against women reached a crisis point, leading to the declaration of a state of emergency on the issue by the Nigerian governors’ forum, which also promised to set up a sex offenders registry, according to local news agencies. The move came after days of marches in which protesters “defied the lockdown restrictions to voice their anger over the recent wave of rape and murder of women and girls in the country.”
