Boko Haram’s deadly seven-year insurgency across north eastern Nigeria has hit the country with one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Yet even as the crisis worsens, southwards, among Nigeria’s political class and press, this stark reality is as distant as a foreign country.
While the group was at one stage in control of swathes of territory, a sustained operation by the Nigerian military has largely rendered them a declining force. But in their wake, the scale of the impact that the insurgency has had continues to emerge. The degree of malnutrition, hunger and displacement in north eastern Nigeria is desperately grim.
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