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A sight of utter destruction

麻豆社 Hausa Service journalist Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi reports from Bama, a town on the Nigerian border with Cameroon that was occupied by the militant Boko Haram group until dislodged by the army four months ago.
He hears testimony of the violence suffered by those unable to flee, and reports bones still visible at the roadside. Reconstruction work is planned for start in January 2016, but he says the task ahead is enormous.

(Photo: A Nigerian soldier arrives to inspect the former prison of Bama on March 25, 2015.)
(Credit: Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)

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