Why people join Boko Haram

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🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The women who regard their days with the jihadist group as the first time they'd had any kind of female empowerment and the men who saw it as a chance to escape poverty and gain access to money and guns. Colin Freeman reports from Maiduguri in Nigeria. Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world. Harriet Noble meets the ‘rental sisters’ trying to coax reclusive young Japanese men back into society. There are up to a million ‘hikikomori’ who go for years without speaking to those around them or even leaving their bedrooms. Jane Labous hears of the stigma of childlessness in Senegal – for both men and women. Bob Dickinson explains why plans to make South America’s biggest ski resort even bigger have provoked a backlash amongst some residents of Barciloche in Argentina. And in supposedly liberal Lebanon, Lizzie Porter meets a cleric who was forced from his job for posting videos of himself online playing the piano in his traditional robes.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:05.4	Good morning.
0:06.3	Today, what are you doing up in your room all the time?
0:09.8	The cry in Japanese households, as young men go for years without leaving their bedrooms.
0:16.7	No children, the stigma of childlessness in Senegal.
0:21.3	We visit the biggest ski resort in South America and we find out why playing
0:26.2	the piano has got a cleric into trouble in Lebanon.
0:31.5	On Monday Boca-Ham militants in Nigeria released an execution video.
0:37.0	A midwife who'd been working with the International Red Cross was forced to kneel and then shot at close range. She'd been kidnapped by the group in March
0:45.2	alongside two other medical workers. Another video released last month showed one of them
0:50.7	being killed. The third woman is being kept as a slave. While the jihadists
0:56.0	still mount regular attacks and killed hundreds of people last year, most areas under
1:01.5	their control have been recaptured by the Nigerian military
1:05.0	and many of their former captives freed.
1:07.5	But as Colin Freeman has heard,
1:10.0	reintegrating them back into society is not always easy.
1:14.7	During her four years as a hostage of Boko Haram,
1:18.2	13-year-old Tina did whatever it took to survive.
1:22.3	In the camp where she was held in Nigeria's vast
1:25.0	Sambisa forest, she cooked for the fighters and cleaned their weapons. When they
1:29.6	lectured her for hours about their warped version of Islam, she listened patiently.
1:34.0	When they slaughtered prisoners, she tried not to look horrified, and when one of their commanders
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