Boko Haram Bombs Cut 3 Million Nigerians From Outside World
- More than $1 billion needed to repair worst hit Nigerian state
- President wants displaced Nigerians to return home this year
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A twin bombing that killed 58 people at a camp in a northeastern Nigerian town last week underlies the destructive capacity of Islamist militant group Boko Haram that’s left 3 million people cut off from access to aid.
The camp at Dikwa stands in a town where shops and homes have been deserted by residents who fled Boko Haram’s onslaught, before it was liberated in July. About 53,000 displaced people live in tents pitched on an expanse of arid land guarded by soldiers in an area about 89 kilometers (55 miles) from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri. They’re among those who can’t be reached by aid organizations from United Nations to U.K-based Oxfam, who won’t venture there due to security concerns.