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Over 5,000 IDPs in NE Nigeria return home: official

Xinhua, September 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Nigerian government on Friday confirmed the return of 5,403 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) after their stay in several camps in restive northeast Borno State.

Abdulkadir Ibrahim, a regional spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), told Xinhua that 1,517 people have returned to their homes in the state's Mafa, 750 in Konduga, and 1,200 in Ngamboru, while 1,936 are due to return to Dikwa.

Last month, the Nigerian government announced that it had reunited more than 200 children with their parents affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.

The children, mostly between the age of five and 12, were from Bama and Baga in Borno.

Boko Haram, which seeks to impose strict Islamic law in northern Nigeria, has been blamed for some 20,000 deaths and displacing of more than 2.6 million people since 2009. Endit