The push was not to kill her, but instead to save her from being becoming a child bride to the Boko Haram foot soldiers who had just invaded their hometown of Madagali in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa. Her instincts warned her that Boko Haram would consider Hassana, her eldest daughter to be of marriageable age and would kill her husband. The Boko Haram extremists were sceptical at first. “The soldiers asked if I was a wife of Boko Haram and I said no”, she recalls. Young Hassana is wandering somewhere within the camp, celebrating the Eid festival that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2017 04:41 UTC