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Deadly roads block mothers from care in jihadist-hit Nigeria

An image of a deadly road block. [File, Standard]

When Lawan Mustafa's wife, nine months pregnant, woke up bleeding in the middle of the night, she looked at her husband and warned him: don't go to the hospital.

Despite a base full of troops stationed on the outskirts of the northeastern Nigerian town where they live, Magumeri is known to crawl with jihadists at night -- as well as anti-jihadist vigilantes who might view Mustafa as a suspect.

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