It was around 8 p.m. on a June evening when Haycenth Leva got the call.
On the other end of the line, someone was crying. And immediately, Leva — a program officer at the peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground — knew that what he had been bracing for had come to pass.
“He said, ‘We are under attack,’” recalled Leva, who spoke to Devex from his home in Makurdi, Nigeria. “‘They are killing people.’”