BAGA SOLA: Militants surrounded Ahmat Moussa’s isolated village on Lake Chad’s shores in the dead of night and then attacked – with devastating consequences for the fisherman and many of his neighbors.
Boko Haram militants have sowed terror among those living around Lake Chad for some 15 years, disrupting the fishing, farming and herding on which millions depend.
“I heard the first blasts and I left without looking back,” 42-year-old Moussa said, of the raid on Balangoura nine months ago.
He has a scar where a Kalashnikov’s bullet hit him in the right leg. And while he escaped, his 16-year-old son was abducted in the raid.
Neighbor Baya Ali Moussa also suffered horror and loss that night.
