Nigeria, Jan. 30 -- Alisa Umar, a middle-aged woman, lost her baby two years ago.

"Fatima was my ninth child and she would have been seven this year," she told PREMIUM TIMES with a forced smile.

Mrs Umar fled the insurgency in her home Borno State and now lives at an unofficial Internal Displaced Peoples (IDP) camps at Damangaza on the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Her narrative in Hausa language was translated to Pidgin English by her husband, Muhammed.

Sitting beside a pot of water on a firewood stove, she was preparing a meal of corn pap for her one-year-old son, Abdullamis.

Fatima died from pneumonia shortly after the family arrived at the IDPs camp.

Mrs Umar was delivered of babies 11 times but lost five of ...