Masses Fleeing Boko Haram Broil in Sun in Niger Camp

Hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes are now living in the Diffa region of eastern Niger. Makeshift camps are everywhere on each side of the RN1, the country's main highway. The asphalt is boiling hot. Here, refugees from Nigeria live next to displaced people from Niger. They are two nationalities but have one common fear: Boko Haram. Mataram Kodogo, a Nigerian, fled her village with her eight children for the relative safety of the Ngourtoua...

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