Red Cross reunites mother with daughter, 7, after four-year separation by Boko Haram Published

The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday that it had reunited a mother, Aishatu Shehu, with her seven-year old daughter, Amina, after they were separated for four years as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Pamela Ongoma, an official of ICRC in Adamawa State, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Yola on Wednesday.

Ongoma said that the duo were reunited following several contacts through phone calls, photograph exchange and other means.

She said Amina was separated from her mother in 2014 when she was three years old after an attack on their village in Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.

Ongoma said Aishatu was located in Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa State, while her daughter was traced to an adoptive mother in Dusulu village of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno in 2017.

“The ICRC, in collaboration with the Nigeria Red Cross Society, today reunited a mother and her daughter after four years of separation,” Ongoma said.