Fears over the risk of abduction have contributed to a sharp increase in women and girls fleeing northeastern Nigeria into Niger, where the IRC is responding to the crisis.
Fears over the risk of abduction have contributed to a sharp increase in women and girls fleeing northeastern Nigeria into Niger, where the International Rescue Committee is responding to the crisis.
As many as a 1,000 refugees a week, 80 percent female, are pouring over the border into the Diffa region of Niger from Nigeria’s Borno state, where 284 school girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants in April.