800,000 children in Nigeria 'running for Their Lives', says Unicef Fighting the between Boko Haram, military Forces and Civilian self-Defence groups in north-eastern Nigeria has forced around 800,000 children from ask for their homes over the past year, theo UN children's agency , Unicef. In a report marking the first anniversary of the Islamist group's abduction of 276 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Chibok, Unicef says the number of children running for ask for their lives in the country or crossing Into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon has doubled in just under 12 months. Despite steadily in recent years Escalating the its attacks, Boko Haram - có name means clustering "western education is forbidden" - Achieved worldwide notoriety last April khi it abducted the girls from school spend the weekend in Borno state. The girls, aged 12 giữa and 17, spend the weekend Were snatched from dormitories and loaded on to trucks. Although some managed to escape, others Were paraded in a propaganda video, chứa it was claimed chúng would be Freed in return for the release of Boko Haram militants Held by the Nigerian Authorities. President Goodluck Jonathan's delay in reacting to the mass abduction - and his Government's failure to rescue add - is Thought to have Contributed to his defeat at the hands of Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria's recent election. In a statement released on Tuesday Buhari said: "When my new administration takes office at the end of May We will by WE CAN everything to defeat Boko Haram. We will act Differently from the Government chúng replace: We hear the anguish of our Citizens and intend to respond accordingly.
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