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on November 16, 2025
The hamlet's downtown features rows of shuttered businesses that speak to better days, but a spark of economic life remains, with several local restaurants, a hardware store, and florist and boutique shops dotting the small commercial district.
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'I do think alcohol sales have something to do with it,' Wells told DailyMail.com of the concentration of dollar stores in Olive Hill. 'It's a great place to sell alcohol for diamond tutoring people going out to camp' at nearby Carter Caves State Park, he added.
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She longed to escape the brutality, hunger and fear that marked virtually every day of her captivity.
But she did not believe she could do so with Bana, as boys were particularly valued in the Boko Haram community. She said she also feared a boy associated with the insurgents would face stigma outside Islamist-held territory, where he would be seen as a potential enemy. Yet when her son, Bana, arrived, she could not help but love the boy. Almost immediately, she was pregnant and sick nearly every day.
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Aisha's ordeal encompasses some of the most extreme hardships the war has inflicted upon civilians: enslavement by Boko Haram, forced abortion by the military, the loss of one child in a military bombing and another, she suspects, to poisoning by soldiers.
The war also took the life of a brother, in addition to her mother, and all but destroyed one of her arms, Aisha said.
Merrett said that as Walmart expanded across the country in the 1980s and 90s, many family-owed stores in smaller surrounding towns were not able to adapt, and shut down. 'In many rural places that used to have a grocery store, they lost that grocery store,' he said.
That war is being carried out, in part, upon the bodies of women and children. Thousands of women and girls have been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by Boko Haram and its Islamic State offshoot.
And yet, many residents of Olive Hill don't begrudge Walmart - in fact, many make the trip to Morehead to shop at the supercenter there, and say they only wish the retailer had a store closer to their homes.
The median household income in Olive Hill is $49,688 - lower than the statewide figure of $55,573, but higher than is generally found in the surrounding rural parts of Carter County, where the town is located.
Boko Haram men often came looking for them, knocking on their door and forcing them to hide. Her father, who was in his 70s, fell ill, she said, and he died by the end of the year.
Now the two young, unmarried sisters were living alone.
After they reunited, she said, Aisha shared the details of her life during their time apart - including her escape, the abortion and the suspected poisoning of Fatima. The sister, who said she'd been a servant to the wife of a high-ranking Boko Haram leader during her captivity, had not seen Aisha since their arrival in Sambisa Forest.
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Today, without a major industry to anchor the local economy, a quarter of workers in Olive Hill commute to another county for their jobs, and 7% work outside of Kentucky entirely, according to Census data from the latest American Community Survey.
In fact, residents of Olive Hill jokingly refer to the Dollar General closest to downtown as the ‘Olive Hill Walmart' due to its wide variety of goods, including a small produce section stocked with fruits and vegetables.
12, again citing dozens of witnesses, Reuters reported the army has intentionally killed children in the war, under a presumption they were, or would become, terrorists. 7 that the army has run a secret abortion program in the northeast, ending the pregnancies of thousands of women and girls freed from insurgent captivity.
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