Women face challenging times due to rebel atrocities

THE Boko Haram crisis in the Lake Chad Basin has harmed women’s livelihoods, according to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).

In a report released last week, it said extremists and other armed groups had looted and destroyed markets, cutting off many women’s access to supplier credit lines.

Terrorist group Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in 2009 in north-eastern Nigeria. It quickly spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a military response. Violence committed by the rebel group