Nigeria’s Malam Fatori: A liberated ghost town

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Ghost Town: Bama has been left devastated by Boko Haram attacksPhoto: AFP
The black letters crudely painted on a wall at the entrance to the devastated town of Malam Fatori, in northeast Nigeria, spell out “God is great” — a calling card from the evicted Boko Haram fighters.
Niger and Chadian army troops, working together in support of Nigerian forces, recaptured the town on Tuesday to find grocery stores vandalised, smoke-blackened walls and motorbikes and wheelbarrows lying abandoned on the ground.
Silence reigns in the clay-built houses of the desert town which has become a virtual ghost town, with only a few …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper