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Al Jazeera meets the Nigerian farmers sneaking back to their homes despite the frequent attacks by Boko Haram and ISIL.

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Already a subscriber? Log in Abba Gana was only 10 years old when Boko Haram insurgents attacked his village in northern Nigeria in 2014. Along with the other boys his age, he was kidnapped and ...

Many survivors of Boko Haram told Amnesty that they witnessed Boko Haram killing their relatives. One young woman, named as CB in the report, said she was abducted at around age 13 in 2014.

The raid was part of an extended campaign of violence by Boko Haram—whose name roughly translates to “Western education is sin”—to create an Islamic state in Nigeria. The kidnapped girls ...

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