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returning and hopefully reconciling. We do not know how many of them died as a result of
Boko Haram invading the Gwoza hills and the eastern plain, after the killing of so many of
them. For example, in June 2014 dozens were killed in a church in Atagara 2 which is a village
ward of Agapalawa, by a Boko Haram gunman disguised as a Nigerian soldier (see Figure 3).
So many local people fled and have not returned even now in late 2020. I have not worked out
how all this might have affected the population estimates I will use in the next section, but I
kept a chronicle of events on my web pages 3, starting in December 2012 and ending in 2017.
These five years must have been the most severe period during which the Gwoza LGA was
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27690687
https://www.mandaras.info/InformationToShare.html
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