The cause of cholera is infection by the V. cholera bacteria.
Suspected cholera cases have jumped in northeast Nigeria where Boko Haram violence has forced tens of thousands of people to seek refuge in crowded camps.
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram – which has caused havoc in Africa’s most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions – is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state
The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. The insurgency took place within the context of long-standing issues of religious violence between Nigeria’s Muslim and Christian communities.
Founding. Mohammed Yusuf founded the sect that became known as Boko Haramin 2002 in Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern state of Borno. He establisheda religious complex and school that attracted poor Muslim families from across Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
More than 1.8 million people have been displaced by the bloody conflict, which has claimed more than 27 000 lives
Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram, is housing 243 000 displaced people in crowded camps with poor hygiene facilities, creating a fertile environment for cholera to spread.
The humanitarian group said 10 000 people have been affected by the fast-spreading cholera outbreak and 175 people have died in the northeast states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe
the congestion in the camps that makes it difficult to provide adequate water, sanitation and hygiene services
The rainy season has also worsened the conditions.
If more land is not urgently provided for camp decongestion and construction of health and sanitation facilities, Nigeria is steering towards yet another cholera outbreak in 2019.
Nigeria has seen regular cholera outbreaks since Boko Haram took up arms against the government in 2009
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