Nigeria: Thousands Flee Boko Haram Terror

Islamist terror group Boko Haram carries out murderous attacks almost every day in northern Nigeria. More and more people are leaving their homes to escape the killing. Two of them tell DW their stories.

A man who does not want to give his name sits nervously on a stone in a suburb of Nigeria's capital Abuja. From his hands, one can see that he has worked for many years as a farmer. But those times are over. A few weeks ago he and his wife came to Abuja - a completely new world for the two of them. Back home in their village in the state of Borno in northeastern Nigeria, a state of emergency is in force. It was imposed in response to the brutal attacks by Islamist sect Boko Haram whose adherents set fire to villages almost on a daily basis and kill civilians without compunction.

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