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Festus Iyorah

Ukraine war diverts attention from Nigeria’s humanitarian crisis

The Boko Haram attack on the town of Bama in 2014 forced residents to take refuge on Maiduguri [File; Jossy Ola/AP Photo]

Bama, Nigeria – Inside a school-turned-internal displacement camp in Bama, a town in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, Modu Aji sits inside one of the hundreds of tents dotting the site.

The 45-year-old tailor is among the thousands to have found refuge here after fleeing a 2014 attack on the town by Boko Haram, an armed group that has been waging an armed campaign in the region for more than a decade.

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