Boko Haram attacks on their villages in the North-East has forced thousands of people, especially women and children, to flee the villages for neibghouring Niger republic where they are not finding any comfort.
Although the Nigerien government has granted them refugee status, they live rough under trees and shelter in cardboard boxes, lined up along dusty roads.
Some United Nations workers said on Tuesday that the construction of formal camps for them had been banned by the Nigerien authorities in order to curtail further the influx of “refugees” or even bring fighters over their border communities with Nigeria.
