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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Bel Trew

‘I was abducted by Boko Haram aged 5 – our children still face a deadly threat every day’

Aisha was only five years old when Boko Haram militants stormed her village with machetes and butchered her father and brother in front of her.

They had refused to join the rebel group in northern Nigeria’s war-ravaged state of Borno. And so, one of Aisha’s earliest memories, is watching them being murdered as punishment.

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