This is the BBC.

Hello. Today, Egypt has presidential elections next month.

We hear of the murky methods to suppress opposition to the present incumbent.

There's a glimpse of the North Korean regime at the Winter Olympics, but we find an enthusiast

of Kim Jong-un in a school in Japan. The mountain regions of of though we find some determined to stay.

And the tale of a Scottish welder turned guru

bringing people to an island off the Canadian coast.

To Nigeria first where government forces still struggle to deal with the Islamist

insurgents of Boko Haram. Villagers continue to live in fear of girls being

kidnapped or forced to marry or join in the violence.

Even if they escape, harsh traditional attitudes see them despised or disowned, as

Stephanie Hegity explains.

Falmata stared into the dusty ground and kicked it intermittently as she mumbled one word replies to our questions.

Falmata isn't her real name, but her uncle who brought her to meet us didn't want her to be identified.

He was afraid that friends, family, neighbors and even the government would find out what his niece had been

through.

Falmato was 13, when she was kidnapped by two men on a motorbike.

They didn't even have guns, she said. She had no idea they were Boca

Horam. They pulled her onto the bike, trapped her between them and drove for

hours, eventually leaving the dusty road and entering the thick Sambisa forest.

She'd been taken to one of Boca Haram's many makeshift camps, with its culture of fear and

its monotonous daily routine.

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