This report is an uncomfortable reminder that cruelty does not discriminate. We focus on six children whose father was murdered by Boko Haram. Forced into the same situation as thousands of other refugees, the bereaved family fled to Maiduguri with their mother. But the relief was not to last. Perhaps through the weight of grief or the emotional turmoil of caring for seven with nothing to her name, the mother soon fell ill. After escaping religious violence and bravely fighting a long war with sickness, the mother also died. Now, six children were displaced, bereaved of both their parents, and alone in a camp of refugees. Regular readers will know the Nigerian Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps have an unspoken truth: what might initially appear to be a temporary stay slowly turns into a life sentence. Still, more trouble lay on the horizon for the mourning orphans.
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