Halima
Marko Kokic
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In 2018, an armed group attacked Halima’s village in Borno State, Nigeria, killed her parents in front of her and abducted her. She was 13. “It was very difficult; they beat me, they refused to feed me,” explains Halima. Forcing her to wear a suicide vest, they told her to run and push the detonator as soon as she met others. One of her abductors took pity on her, removed the vest and let her go.
Marko Kokic for UNICEF