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Logistics nightmare: helping the Boko Haram displaced

By AFP
22 February 2017   |   4:46 am
Humanitarian groups in the town of Dikwa in northeast Nigeria are trying to bring help to some 57,000 people forced out of their homes by Boko Haram Islamists, whose insurgency has devastated the remote region since 2009.

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