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Christmas amid border closure: how affordable is rice?

By Guardian Exclusive
25 December 2019   |   7:10 am
As Nigeria continues to partially close its land borders with Benin and Niger, shoppers in Nigeria continue to lament the high price of rice and other commodities as they celebrate Christmas.

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