Nigerians displaced by insurgency fear being forced to return home


Hauwa Kukuda, an internally displaced woman, sits next to her goats during an interview with Reuters at an IDP camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria November 5, 2021. Picture taken November 5, 2021. REUTERS/Libby George

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Hauwa Ahmadu Kukuda rakes straw from the top of the two-room shack she shares with eight children. Goats jostle for it as the children crouch next to tarp-covered walls.

Outside, row after dusty row stretches for miles in the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, which houses some 30,000 people displaced by 12 years of Islamist insurgency.

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