Nigeria’s missing: Families in the northeast still wait for answers

In Maiduguri, Kashim Mohammed has hoped since 2011 to find his sister Falmata, who was abducted with their mother by unidentified gunmen while travelling to Port Harcourt. Years later, a stranger told him Falmata had been found in Benin, but vanished without leaving contact details, and the family has never been able to verify the claim. Kashim, who leads an association for families of displaced and missing people, says his father died without learning what had happened to his daughter. Muhammad Alhaji Bashir is also searching for his missing elder brother, Adam Muhammad Bashir, known as Bakura.