Maiduguri, Nigeria – Halimah Abdullahi has spent most of the last week peering out of the gates of the displaced person’s camp she and her family are squatting in, hoping that her three-year-old toddler, Musa, will suddenly come waddling towards her, safe and sound.
The boy disappeared as Abdullahi struggled to join a queue and register for the cooked food aid the Borno State government had been giving out to displaced people in the camp. Her family had lost their meagre belongings last week after massive floods swept through their previous abode – a ramshackle hut hewn from tents.
