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A Hidden Face of War
A few years ago, a woman in her sixties outside Banda Aceh in Indonesia told me about the rape and other torture she had endured during...
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Dionne Searcey | New York Times
- Dec 8, 2017
They Fled Boko Haram, Only to Be Raped by Nigeria’s Security Forces
Falmata, 14, was abducted and raped repeatedly by Boko Haram fighters. Her trauma then continued in a camp for victims of the war. ADAM...
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Dionne Searcey | The New York Times
- Oct 25, 2017
Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow these teenage girls survived.
"They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’”AISHA, 15 “I didn’t want a situation where I’m the...
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International Crisis Group 1
- Oct 25, 2017
Cameroon’s Far North: Reconstruction Amid Ongoing Conflict
Cameroon has been officially at war with Boko Haram since May 2014. Despite a gradual lowering in the conflict’s intensity, which peaked...
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International Crisis Group 1
- Jul 20, 2017
Watch List 2017 – Second Update
Nigeria: Growing Insecurity on Multiple Fronts Nigeria is facing a time of uncertainty and peril. President Muhammadu Buhari’s failing...
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Dionne Searcey | New York Times
- Mar 30, 2017
Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere
More than 130,000 people have amassed along this desert highway outside Diffa, Niger — National Route 1. They now call its barren, sandy...