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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