Nigeria: Borno Community Resorts to Eating Wild Fruits and Roots

11 June 2014

The people of Gwoza area of Borno State, which suffered incessant Boko Haram attacks in the last one month, have resorted to eating wild fruits and roots to survive as food has become scarce, it was yesterday gathered.

Owing to the humanitarian crisis caused by the attacks, thousands of residents of the six border villages of Attagara, Amuda, Agapalawa, Ashigashiya, Ngoshe and Chikedeh in Gwoza Local Government Area have also started to leave their villages for fear of more attacks.

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