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Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to NowhereBy DIONNE SEARCEY; Photographs by ADAM FERGUSONMarch 30, 2017More than 130,000 people have amassed along this desert highway outside Diffa, Niger — National Route 1. They now call its barren, sandy shoulders home.All of them have been chased from their villages by Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that kidnaps and kills indiscriminately in a campaign of violence that has lasted eight years. The New York Times spent weeks documenting the stories of people living along this road, interviewing more than 100 residents — including 15 in the following image — clinging to its edges to survive.Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/30/world/africa/the-road-to-nowhere-niger.html?_r=0
