Children play outside makeshift accommodation at Bakassi Camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 8, 2016. A Nigerian government push to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency has shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war. In recent months the army has taken back much of the territory lost to the jihadists during the five-year insurgency. But the war, which killed thousands of people, is still taking its toll in the northeast, despite President Muhammadu Buhari's vow to crush Boko Haram by the end of last year. The group, now officially allied to the Islamic State fighters who control much of Iraq and Syria, has responded with suicide bombings and hit and run attacks against civilians. In the latest shock to civilians, meat has become scarce as the army has closed cattle markets to stop Boko Haram from raising funds by selling livestock, officials say. The shutdown of the Maiduguri cattle market – one of the biggest in west Africa – has, overnight, made hundreds of cattle traders, herdsmen, butchers and laborers unemployed. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A milk maid carries a calabash filled with milk at a camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. A Nigerian government push to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency has shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war. In recent months the army has taken back much of the territory lost to the jihadists during the five-year insurgency. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





An elderly woman is seen at a camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





People gather at the cattle market in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A man walks past a truck loaded with animal food at the cattle market in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A man holds a cow at the cattle market in Maiduguri, Nigeria, March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





People walk past bags of animal food at the cattle market in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A woman sells milk at a community of internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Nigeria, March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A woman walks in a camp for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





People walk near makeshift accommodation at Bakassi Camp for internally displace people in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 8, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A woman carries dried grass on her head in a community for internally displaced people in Maiduguri, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





A calendar with the portrait of Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari (L) is displayed at the Maiduguri cattle market, Nigeria March 9, 2016. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)