‘No end in sight’
Boko Haram was established in 2009, and the group boasts of several thousand fighters. Throughout the last year, fighting between the armed organisation and the Nigerian military has left at least 20,000 people dead and more than 2.6 million displaced in northeastern Nigeria.
Last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that fighting between the government and Boko Haram resulted in the closure of more than half of all the schools in the country’s northeastern state of Borno.
The report found that an estimated three million children are in emergency need of education. It added that nearly 100 children have also been used as “human bombs” since the beginning of the year.
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