Having fled Boko Haram and sought refuge in an aid camp in northeastern Nigeria, Babakura Wakin watched some 30 people die, including his younger sister, as scarce food supplies ran out.
But it was the fate of an elderly man, Baba Madu, who cried with hunger day after day before dying of starvation, that has stayed with the 25-year-old, a month after he left the camp.
“He lost a lot of weight – it was hunger that killed people like him, not illness,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
