
The 30-year old mother of five fled her village two years ago when armed men crossed at nightfall from Nigeria and burnt down her house in Mora. She has not seen her husband since. “After Boko Haram came my life went back to zero,” she told UN News at the workshop in Maroua. “Selling these products is helping me to rebuild my life.”
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Boko Haram and other armed Islamist groups continue to mount violent assaults and spread terror in the north-east of Nigeria and Cameroon. The United Nations supported a recent influx of 35,000 Nigerians into Cameroon after the city of Rann in Nigeria was attacked by extremists.
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