Bulama Kaya has been displaced from the Kaya community in Konduga, Borno State, since 2015, following a series of attacks by terrorists. Today, his 13 children are part of over a million internally displaced kids within school age in Nigeria but do not have access to quality education, severely limiting their prospects. “I wish to […]
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The Fariya Buzu camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) has existed for over six years in Maiduguri, Borno’s capital. But the residents say they have never received support from government and non-governmental agencies. Located behind the popular Maiduguri Cattle Market, the camp hosts about 3,000 people, mostly women and children. Many of them had fled […]
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When Gambo Muhammad, 72, left his hometown of Sidiya Kari in Kala Balge, Northeast Nigeria, he felt he had no other choice. Rampaging terrorists were hunting them ‘like rabbits,’ he recalls, especially men like him. Six years later, after finally settling in a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the state capital, Maiduguri, he […]
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All that Sabo Garba, an internally displaced fish farmer from Baga in Kukawa local government of Borno state, Northeast Nigeria, wanted at the moment was to be assisted with means of transportation to enable him to move his family out of the camp and return to his ancestral home. Baga is one of the locations […]
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