If he returns on his own, he said in a reference to Boko Haram, “those boys will slaughter me.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyPresident Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly declared the war with Boko Haram over. “The area has been liberated, and we’re going home,” Mr. Hassan said, sitting behind the wheel as his wife breast-fed their infant in the passenger’s seat. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyYet insurgents still roam the northeast and frequently crisscross roads like the one that was taking Mr. Hassan and his family home. Just weeks ago, Boko Haram ambushed soldiers along this very highway, killing seven of them. The narrow road is also the same one that Boko Haram used in January to ferry nine suicide bombers who set upon the same camp in Maiduguri that the Hassan family was leaving.

Source: New York Times March 11, 2017 16:26 UTC