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Why a Nigerian village has welcomed thousands of refugees
In 2018, the Nigerian federal government and the United Nations approached the leaders of a village in southern Nigeria with a request. They wanted to use about 150 acres of the village’s land for a refugee settlement. It would house people fleeing from a …