Reuters wins Selden Ring Award for investigation of Nigerian military

FILE PHOTO: A Nigerian woman, unnamed to protect her identity, who told Reuters she received an abortion under a secret program run by the Nigerian military, poses for a portrait in an undisclosed location in Nigeria, September 28, 2020. Military leaders denied the abortion program ever existed. REUTERS/Paul Carsten

A team of Reuters reporters has won the Selden Ring Award, one of the top prizes in investigative journalism, for reports that exposed grave human-rights abuses against women and children by the Nigerian military.

The team - including reporters Paul Carsten, David Lewis, Reade Levinson and Libby George - were recognized for “Nightmare in Nigeria.” Their four-part series, published in December, chronicled previously unreported abuses by the Nigerian Army during its 14-year war with Islamist insurgents in the country’s northeast.