For over a year now, authorities in Nigeria have been resettling people displaced by the fighting between government forces and Boko Haram, Islamic militants who launched an insurgency in 2009 with northeastern Borno state as the epicenter of the fighting.
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And in a state where at least 70% of the population depends on agriculture, dozens of farmers have also beenwomen and children who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram were rescuedwho opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes in the Tarmuwa council area of the neighboring Yobe state, west of Borno.
“We are begging the government to at least find us a means of livelihood instead of staying idle and waiting for whenever food comes,” he said. As the resettlement got underway, one in five displaced persons stayed back in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, and nearby towns but were left without any support for local integration, the Global Protection Cluster, a network of non-government organizations and U.N. agencies, said last December.
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