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10 years after Chibok, Nigerian families cope with the trauma of more school kidnappings
8 months, 1 week ago

10 years after Chibok, Nigerian families cope with the trauma of more school kidnappings

Associated Press  

KADUNA, Nigeria — His weak body stood in the doorway, exhausted and covered in dirt. For two years, the boy had been among Nigeria’s ghosts, one of at least 1,500 schoolchildren and others seized by armed groups and held for ransom. But paying a ransom didn’t work for 12-year-old Treasure, the only captive held back from the more than 100 …

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EXPLAINER: Why Nigeria’s schools are abduction targets
3 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why Nigeria’s schools are abduction targets

Associated Press  

LAGOS, Nigeria — Gunmen have attacked another school in northern Nigeria, this time grabbing children as young as 3 before abandoning the youngest ones in the forest when they could not keep up with the group on foot. After one harrowing abduction, the kidnappers killed five students from Greenfield University in Kaduna state after their parents failed to meet hostage …

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Kidnappers free 14 Nigerian students abducted in Kaduna state
3 years, 6 months ago

Kidnappers free 14 Nigerian students abducted in Kaduna state

Al Jazeera  

Kidnappers have released the remaining 14 students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, officials said. Armed groups have repeatedly attacked schools and universities in northwest Nigeria in the last few months, abducting more than 700 students for ransom since December. “Fourteen of the abducted students of the university have been freed,” …

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Nigeria: Kidnappers kill two more captive students
3 years, 7 months ago

Nigeria: Kidnappers kill two more captive students

Al Jazeera  

The Greenfield University students were kidnapped by gunmen last week in Kaduna state. Two more students were killed after being kidnapped with others last week by gunmen in northwest Nigeria, local authorities said Monday, bringing the death toll from the attack to six. The killings in Kaduna state by criminals known locally as “bandits” mark an escalation in the mass …

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