An aerial view of Maiduguri, Nigeria as dry season nears, November 23, 2017. Picture taken November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Paul Carsten
BAMA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's government has a plan for the northeast, torn apart by eight years of conflict with Boko Haram: displaced people will be housed in fortified garrison towns, ringed by farms, with the rest of the countryside effectively left to fend for itself.
The vision for the state of Borno, ground zero for the war with the Islamist insurgency, is a stark admission of the reality in the northeast.
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