Boko Haram attacks destroy farm communities, bring famine risk


  • World
  • Friday, 02 Dec 2016

Women and children are seen gathered at the water point at the Internally displaced peoples camp Muna camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Fati Adamu has not seen three of her six children nor her husband since Boko Haram militants attacked her hometown in northeast Nigeria in an hail of bullets.

Two years on, she is among thousands of refugees at the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the city worst hit by a seven-year-old insurgency that has forced more than two million people to flee their homes.

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