Thursday, December 8, 2016

More than 120,000 Nigerian children facing starvation as Islamic terror group Boko Haram ravages country

Without aid, it is feared that number could rise to 100,000 in Borno state alone – a state the size of Belgium – by next summer, and 120,000 people, mostly ­children, will starve to death across northeast Nigeria next year



These people are victims of Boko Haram , ranked by the Global Terrorism Index as the world’s deadliest terror group. 

The murderous militants, who have close ties to Islamic State, are said to have slaughtered more than 15,000 people in six years. Their occupation of swathes of the country has left a bloody trail of execution, rape, kidnap and arson. And this summer, it became frighteningly clear they have left something else in their wake – starvation.

The Nigerian military is now freeing areas from Boko Haram control, but they are uncovering starving people, stripped of their farms and crops by the terrorists, or driven from their homes with nothing.






Of the two million people displaced in northeast Nigeria, most of them are in Borno. Fatima and Khadija fled to the state from their hometown of Gumsa, over 125 miles away, when they heard Boko Haram was rampaging towards them.




More than 120,000 Nigerian children facing starvation as Islamic terror group Boko Haram ravages country

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