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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — . “They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’” Aisha, 15 “I didn’t want a situation where I’m the reason anyone dies.” Fatima M., 16 “I really didn’t expect to survive. I thought I had only minutes to live.” Maryam, …
Falmata, 14, was abducted and raped repeatedly by Boko Haram fighters. Her trauma then continued in a camp for victims of the war. Adam Ferguson for The New York Times MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The camp was supposed to be a refuge. Falmata’s life had been stolen by war ever since the sixth grade, when she …
https://mybiafranstoryweb.wordpress.com/ In May, 2016, on the 49th anniversary of the Nigeria-Biafra War, a Facebook friend posted a tribute to his mother who had been an orphan living in a refugee camp in Gborokiri, Rivers State, Nigeria. He continued this way: “My father, on the other hand, was a remarkable young man who had left a …
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