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‘We will stay’: Displaced Nigerians fear Boko Haram, stay in closing camps

Maryam Suleiman refuses to return to her hometown, where Boko Haram killed her brothers [Kurutsi Bitrus/Egab]

Maiduguri, Nigeria – Four months after authorities evacuated 22,000 people and dismantled its water supply, the Muna displaced persons camp in Maiduguri is a shell of what it once was. But Maryam Suleiman, a 50-year-old widow, has refused to leave.

Suleiman and her 12 children still sleep beneath leaking roofs of the camp in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, even as the structures crumble around them.

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