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Boko Haram: Hopeless and hungry mothers in Lake Chad resort to prostitution to feed their children - Red Cross

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Due to the insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists that have driven millions
 from their communities, women in Lake Chad are forced into prostitution
 to survive, The International Committee of the Red Coss (ICRC) said on 
Thursday.<br />
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The violence has displaced more than 2.4 million people across the 
swamplands of Lake Chad, where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and 
Nigeria meet, and disrupted the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of 
others, ICRC says.
Up to a million people have been cut off from humanitarian aid by Boko 
Haram despite a regional military offensive against the Islamist 
militants, according to the United Nations.<br />
It's (extraordinary) ... to see a woman and her family and they have 
nothing other than what they've been given. The children are clearly 
malnourished and it's just hopeless," said Simon Brooks, head of ICRC's 
delegation in Cameroon.<br />
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As the head of their households, some mothers have been forced to sell 
sex so they could feed their family, since many no longer have husbands 
because of the conflict, Brooks said. 
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"When you don't have the means to survive, you'll go begging for it. 
It's a loss of dignity when you're having to resort to something like 
that just to keep your children alive - fraternising with people who 
have money."
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The unfolding catastrophe in the Lake Chad basin was named the most 
neglected crisis of 2016 in a poll of aid agencies by the Thomson 
Reuters Foundation.
Overshadowed by the wars in Syria and Iraq and the global refugee and 
migrant crisis, Lake Chad has barely made the headlines, Brooks said 
during an interview in London.
More than 7 million people lack food but insecurity makes it hard for 
aid agencies to reach the most vulnerable. </blockquote>
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Half a million children are severely acutely malnourished and on the 
brink of death if they are not treated, Brooks said.
"This area has suffered from decades of chronic neglect ... if it 
continues to be under-funded and under-reported, then millions of people
 will continue to suffer," he said.</blockquote>
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Boko Haram: Hopeless and hungry mothers in Lake Chad resort to prostitution to feed their children - Red Cross

Due to the insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists that have driven millions from their communities, women in Lake Chad are...

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