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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Only the brave return to town freed from Boko Haram rebels |
| 2015-05-13 |
| [ARABNEWS] MICHIKA: Spent bullets crunch underfoot, a raided bank lies in ruins and burned out cars and cycle of violences dot the streets. Michika may now be free from Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... but the town in the remote north of Nigeria's Adamawa state is eerily quiet and signs of the holy warriors' presence are everywhere. Workshops are empty, markets deserted, shops and schools shut. Angelina Linus fled Michika when Boko Haram arrived last September and spent seven months hiding in the mountains that overlook the town and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... beyond. She returned in April when it was liberated. But even though the rebels have gone the almost deserted town is still under threat, she said. "We need help before the rains. We don't have anything. No medicine, no mattresses... everything is required," the 38-year-old told AFP. "Two of my four children are in the state capitl Yola. I need them back but I have nothing to feed them, so they are better off staying there. The rains may come but there's no way to farm because we don't have anything to cultivate," added Jamila Gambo, as civilian vigilantes manned a checkpoint with home-made weapons. "If there's no food at the end of the day, people will starve," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Brave or stupid? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-13 01:16 |