Surviving Boko Haram’s war on children | News | Africa | M&G

— It took great courage, but finally, Musa decided that he would run away. He doesn’t remember exactly when he ran.

Musa was about nine when his world turned upside down. He was with his father in Gamboru, a market town near the border with Cameroon, when Boko Haram militants attacked. They kidnapped him. He hasn’t seen his mother since.Boko Haram attacks often come in two main forms, both primed for maximum devastation.

881 children were killed or maimed in Boko Haram-related violence in 2017 alone, although not always at the hands of the militant group. The Nigerian military killed more than 200 minors in a miscalculated military attack on a displaced persons camp. “The discovery that babies and young children have died in appalling conditions in military detention is both harrowing and horrifying.

In his first few days out of military custody, Musa had pointedly told her he would never go to school. “What will I do with Western education?’’ he had asked. Hauwa explained he would need to go to school if he wanted to help others like he claimed, but Musa had seemed doubtful. “The people like ‘Why should I allow someone who killed my family, my brother, my loved ones, why should I be together with them?’” said Hauwa.

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