Nigeria, June 13 -- The Borno State Government has reintegrated 720 former Boko Haram fighters into their communities after they completed a rehabilitation and deradicalisation programme.

The development brought the total number of ex-insurgents processed under the initiative to nearly 10,000, officials said on Friday.

The former fighters were reintegrated alongside 992 women and 2,050 children after undergoing rehabilitation at the Hajj Camp in Maiduguri, where surrendered insurgents are profiled, deradicalised and trained in vocational skills before being returned to society.

Speaking at the reintegration ceremony on Friday, the Special Adviser to Governor Babagana Zulum on Security, Abdullahi Ishaq, a retired brigadier general, said...