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Teaching children of Boko Haram fighters

Zannah Mustapha founded a school for children affected by Boko Haram violence in the heartland of the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria, taking in children of the militants. He explains how he managed to get the children's families, especially widows of Boko Haram fighters, to agree to the school's curriculum. Zannah has won the UN's nansen refugee award.

Video produced by Robert Spencer and Huong Ly

(Photo: Schoolgirls smiling in Maiduguri,Credit: UNHCR)

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