About eighty children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon cannot remember their own names or origin.
The children aged between 5 and 18 did not speak English, French or any local languages, says US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI).
The children were found at a camp in northern Cameroon in November.
Recall that Boko Haram militants have extended their campaign into Cameroon.
The militants are fighting to establish an Islamic Caliphate in north – Eastern Nigeria.
They control several towns and villages in the region and recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS) militants, who have seized large areas of Syria and Iraq.
The children were rescued in Cameroon after security forces acting on a tip-off raided what was thought to have been a Koranic school.
The children had spent so long with their captors, being indoctrinated in Jihadist ideology that had lost track of who they were. They are being rehabilitated.
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