Margaret, a mother of 5 (pictured above) was abducted with two of her
children, a son Jacob and daughter Halima from her village in Damboa
Borno state late last year. She was taken to a Boko Haram camp where
she met another abductee, Hauwa. Worried
and unsettled about the safety and well being of her other children aged
six, eight and ten she left behind when she was abducted, Margaret
took the risk and fled the sect members camp with her daughter, handing
over her son to Hauwa who she begged to look after him for her.
20 year old Hauwa, (pictured above) took care of the child and another
child while in Boko Haram captivity, claiming the children as hers and
using them to disguise that she was a married woman.
Margaret lived
with the agony of not knowing where her young son and Hauwa were but as fate will have it, Hauwa and her son were among
those rescued from Sambisa Forest recently and taken to an Internally
Displaced Persons camp where they both met and reunited.
Source:
BBC
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