1.4 MILLION CHILDREN DISPLACED BY BOKO HARAM - UNICEF

Children fleeing Boko Haram's insurgency in Nigeria and neigbouing countries has reached an all time high of 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said on Friday. 2.1 million people have been displaced, evidently about half of which are children.

"In northern Nigeria alone, nearly 1.2 million children - over half of them under 5 years old - have been forced to flee their homes. An additional 265,000 children have been uprooted in Cameroon, Chad and Niger," UNICEF said in a statement.

The largest concentration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and therefore children are in camps or host communities in Borno state. While the army has freed the last few towns still under some form of Boko Haram control, IDPs are reluctant to return home. (Reporting by Julia Payne; Editing by James Dalgleish)

This is probably because Boko Haram factions still raid villages for supplies, they bomb places of worships, markets and bus stations.Their cause still heavy on their minds.