Mass evictions in Lagos displace thousands including baby twins now living in a canoe

Victor Ahansu was barely awake with his wife and baby twins before the grinding sound of bulldozers woke them. It was all the warning the family had, he said, before fleeing mass evictions in their historic community of Makoko in Lagos. The thump of hammers fills the air as other residents of Nigeria ’s largest city break down homes and salvage what they can.