DAKAR, Feb 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gremah Umara was hoping for a refuge when he, his wife and their two-year-old daughter fled an Islamist militant attack on their village in northern Nigeria and headed over the border into Niger.
They found a respite from the violence, but little else - just scores of their compatriots living rough under trees and sheltering in cardboard boxes, lined up along dusty roads in the impoverished country's Diffa region.
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