'I know that there were a number of young people and residents inside the address before the fire happened and our enquiries are ongoing to identify everyone who was there, not least of all to ensure that everyone is okay.

That war is being carried out, in part, upon the bodies of women and children. Thousands of women and girls have been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by Boko Haram and its Islamic State offshoot.

Aisha smiled as she recalled her younger days, when she would pound, roll and fry "kuli kuli," a peanut treat she sold with her mother at the market near their farm.

Her family was sustained both by her mother's work and her father's cultivation of maize, guinea corn and millet.

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Lying in the insurgent camp's infirmary, she plotted her escape, intent on saving Fatima from a future of hunger and rape under the militants.

By then, she had been in captivity for more than three years. Aisha took months to recover after the bombing attack.

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In the camp, Aisha found a new friend, Felerin, who held her as she cried over her losses. Felerin had suffered, too, telling Reuters she'd had a forced abortion and lost two young sons after soldiers injected them with poison at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri.

The Prince and Princess also joined two pupils from Waldegrave School; Dila Kaya, 14, Lina Alkutubi, 15, and their teacher Natasha Rustam to help make an origami crane, a symbol of hope and healing during challenging times.

Dozens of women in northeast Nigeria told Reuters of similarly wrenching experiences during the ongoing strife, which has claimed more than 300,000 lives, algebra 2 tutors near me including those of civilians killed by violence, starvation and disease.

She said she also feared a boy associated with the insurgents would face stigma outside Islamist-held territory, top education franchises 2019 where he would be seen as a potential enemy. But she did not believe she could do so with Bana, as boys were particularly valued in the Boko Haram community.

A local pharmacist told her the child must have been bitten by a bug and gave her a syrup to lower her temperature. After their arrival at the family's former home, within hours of the injections, Fatima started acting strangely, Aisha said.

She would not breastfeed, her eyes became distant and glassy, and she developed a fever.

During today's engagement, the couple met with representatives from the centre who, through bucket collections and other donations after prayers, have raised over £25,000 for the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.

Amid the shooting, her mother collapsed, struck in the chest by a stray round.

Aisha, then 18, and her 14-year-old sister made frantic efforts to bandage the wound, but their mother bled out and died. and continued for hours, Aisha said. Gunfire erupted about 5 p.m.

She began to feel terrified. The insurgents took the woman, in her 50s, to the village square and, in front of as many people as they could gather, beheaded her with an axe. Aisha said she can't forget the woman's head and body dangling as blood spurted from her.

Today, the couple heard harrowing stories with aid workers who have recently returned from the crisis zone in Turkey and described desperate scenes of rescuers trying to free trapped people with just hammers.

"My mother's death is the first thing that pains me," said Aisha, now 26, weeping quietly. By her account, that night marked the end of a secure childhood in a loving family - and the beginning of a hellish ordeal at the hands of both the Islamist militants and the Nigerian military, who have been locked in a 13-year war over control of the country's northeast.

After leaving the camp, Aisha and her sister stayed for a short time with an aunt in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, but she treated them as a burden, saying they had "the attitudes" of Boko Haram, Aisha said.

Her father, mother, two brothers and a younger sister were all at home. The rainy season had nourished her father's grain, pushing the stalks knee-high. It was a pleasant evening in the summer of 2014, in her Nigerian village near the Cameroon border.

One morning about four years ago, when he was roughly 3, the military launched an airstrike on the camp. Aisha, who was nearby, ran to save him but was too late. They blew up the hut where the boy slept.