How I almost became a Boko Haram suicide bomber

On Tuesday 9 February, two Nigerian girls entered a camp for displaced people in the country's north-east. Minutes later they detonated their explosive vests, killing 58 people. A third girl refused to take part in the suicide mission for Islamist militant group Boko Haram. This is her story.

 

Hauwa, not her real name, doesn't know her age, but she looks 17 or 18.

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