Falmata is getting a full beauty treatment - a thick paste of henna, with its delicate pointed swirls, adorns her feet.
While it dries, a woman is battling with her hair. Comb in hand she’s stretching and straightening Falmata’s tight curls.
“We were allowed to choose any style for the hair and the henna,” remembers Falmata. “We got the henna to dye our hands, legs and sometimes even the neck.”
Falmata knows she is going to look beautiful. But there’s a deadly consequence.
Once she's been made up, a suicide bomb will be attached to her waist.
Falmata is one of hundreds of young women, most of them teenagers, who have been abducted by militants in Nigeria and forced to carry out missions for them.
Remarkably, she survived.
She was just 13 when she was snatched by two men on a motorbike while she was walking to a relative’s house near the border with Cameroon.
They rode for hours - Falmata pinned between the two men - leaving the road and travelling deep into a forest.
Eventually they reached their destination - a huge, makeshift camp. Falmata had no idea where she was.
“There were many tents and thatched houses,” she says, almost whispering.
“The young girls were put in the tents. There were nine in mine and we had to sleep on big mats.”
Source : BBC
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