Borno state Nigeria government launched an ambitious school enrolment programme for thousands of children get by the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency.

The governor of the State, Babagana Zulum, launched the initiative in Monguno town where victims of the conflict have been living in camps after being removed from their communities.

Up to 7,000 children were been registered to primary and junior secondary schools in the first batch of the programme on Sunday and Monday, his spokesman told the Gopde Global Resources.

The authorities say many of the beneficiaries are children that orphaned by the violence. They say the project is to put more than 20,000 children across the state to school.

The Conflict, which began in 2009, has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions of others in north-eastern Nigeria and several neighbouring countries.

It forced many children to leaves schools and others could not be enrolled at all. Learning institutions have also been damaged.

The authorities says they are making efforts to ensure children are back to class by building new schools and take their education.