Nigeria vigilantes: Community militias emerge in response to insecurity

Young people in Nigeria are being given weapons to protect some vulnerable villages.
Armed groups including Boko Haram are still looting homes and businesses, as well as killing and kidnapping residents.
Federal security forces are said to be overstretched.

Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Kankara in northern Nigeria.

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