Love, deception and the real lives of Nigeria's romance fraudsters

According to France 24, Lagos's so-called Yahoo Boys are running a lucrative but heartbreaking industry of online romance scams. The story turned personal for journalist Carlos Barragan, whose own mother was drawn into one of these schemes. His reporting uncovered a complex and uncomfortable web of loneliness, deception, and betrayal behind the fraud. The same broadcast noted France is pulling all of its diplomats out of Burkina Faso, a tit-for-tat move after Ouagadougou cut ties with Paris last month, and that young people in Tanzania are planning an anti-government protest.

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