The Teenagers Fleeing Boko Haram, and a School's Hunting Lessons
Fleeing from Boko Haram in Nigeria, plus the story of a Canadian teacher who whose students read, write, and hunt buffalo.
Western and Arabic media is focused on the on the Islamic State and the advances it is making in Syria. But jihadists from Boko Haram in Nigeria are taking territory too, and people are fleeing the areas the group controls. Will Ross has been talking to teenage refugees.
Also in the programme, he鈥檚 a schoolteacher, a hunter 鈥� and a skilled butcher as well. Ollie Williams has been in Canada鈥檚 far north, seeing students getting life lessons that are slightly different from the usual reading and arithmetic.
Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones
Producer: Mike Wendling
Photo: Muslims take part in Eid Al-Adha prayer at the Syrian Mosque in Lagos on 4 October 2014. Nigeria's northeast Yobe and Borno states the day before imposed a travel ban through the Muslim holiday weekend to guard against Boko Haram attacks, barring motorists from reaching their families for the Eid celebration. (Credit: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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