‘I scarred my six children’

Madina Maishanu

BBC News, Kano

BBC Fatima, in a green and pink patterned robe, holds her two-year-old child in a yellow T-shirt. She is surrounded by her other five children - four girls wearing different coloured heads and a teenage son in a red T-shirt. They all have their backs to the camera so you cannot see their faces.BBC

A mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face and legs.

The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all six of her children,…

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