MAROUA, CAMEROON – At a women’s empowerment center in Cameroon’s northern town of Kousseri, on the border with Chad and Nigeria, a group of women are learning how to sew.
But this is no ordinary training center as these women have survived being forcibly married to Boko Haram terrorists.
The Islamist militants abducted 18-year old Rumaitu Adjara, forced her to marry one of them, and then abandoned her after she had a baby.At the center, Adjara has learned to repair dresses to earn money. She says it will not be easy for her to open a seamstress shop without funding. But […]
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