First he heard voices, then the sputter of gunfire. Kaka crept behind an acacia tree and froze in terror. The teen was returning home after gathering firewood late one July afternoon in 2020. Peering ahead, he saw a group of men at a waterhole, most in Nigerian Army camouflage. They stood over a line of children face down in the.
First he heard voices, then the sputter of gunfire. Kaka crept behind an acacia tree and froze in terror. The teen was returning home after gathering firewood late one July afternoon in.
The existence of the army-run abortion programme hasn’t been previously reported. The campaign relied on deception and physical force against women who were kept in military custody for days or weeks. Three soldiers and a guard said they commonly assured women, who often were debilitated from captivity in the bush, that the pills and injections given to them were to.
The Nigerian military has aborted a minimum of 10,000 pregnancies since at least 2013 when it has conducted a secret, illegal abduction programme for women and girls in the northeast. According to a report by Reuters, many of the women and girls had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Fati, who was kidnapped by terrorists and later rescued by the military, narrated her ordeal.