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Nigeria's Displaced Camps Among Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus

Ifiok Ettang

   JOS, NIGERIA - More than adecade of Boko Haram militant attacks
   havedisplacedovertwo millionNigeriansin the north,with hundreds of
   thousands livingininternally displaced people's camps.

   Medical experts worry the camps lack the spacing and sanitary
   conditions to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus, which has so far
   infectedmore than 370people in Nigeria and killed10.'¯

   In an orphanage for displaced children, SamuelAdamu, 16, holds a
   weeklyBible study class atthe House ofRecab.

   Adamuhimselfhas beenan internallydisplacedperson (IDP) since 2014,
   whenBoko Haram militants invadedhis hometown ofGwoza.'¯

   "I have lost many things, Adamu said. "They have killed my loved ones
   and many other people that I know."

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