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## Video: Boko Haram Left It in Ruins. Now, This Nigerian Town Is Making a Comeback

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_Published 2017-06-28. Boko Haram may be on the edge of defeat, but with more than 2 million Nigerians now living in ad hoc camps, military success is meaningless if citizens don’t return home. Now it is up to the Nigerian government to rebuild a region devastated by war._


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## Transcript

Search for more than 200 school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. [ CROSSTALK ] Boko Haram. Officials say Boko Haram killed as many as 2000 people. The horrors continued through the weekend in Nigeria. A pair of bombings of marketplaces. [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] We have recently started a pilot project here to help the community to rebuild themselves, the community basically from scratch. [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] Are you worried about this? Well, we do what we can.

When we rebuild houses now, this is the starting point. So what we want for now is that they can come back and live conveniently. And then, little by little, part of their planning can also be that they expand the houses, that they extend them. So I'm not worried about it. It's the beginning. It's just to create an image of seed of hope. [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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