Number of children displaced by Boko Haram hits 1.4 million-UNICEF
The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram's insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said on Friday. The militants have been waging a six-year insurrection to establish an Islamist state in the northeast of Nigeria that has killed thousands and displaced 2.1 million people, most of whom are children. "In northern Nigeria alone, nearly 1.2 million children – over half of them under 5 years old – have been forced to flee their homes.
