In 2012, many people from the northeast Nigerian town of Banki were forced to leave due to conflict. Among them was Bashir.*
“Today brings more joy to me and my wife than the day he was born”.
These are the words of Bashir’s father when he and his wife were reunited with their child after he had been missing for more than a decade, due to the long-running armed conflict in northeast Nigeria.
“It was devastating for us when he was lost, without word of his whereabouts, all these years,” Bashir’s father said.
Bashir had sought shelter in neighbouring Cameroon along with other children and adults after an attack on Banki, where he had been staying with an uncle to attend religious schooling. His uncle died in the attack.
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