Nigeria: Boko Haram Threatens To Sell Kidnapped Girls

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
5 May 2014
Tags:
Nigeria, Conflict, Peace and Security, Human Rights, Women and Gender

Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell hundreds of teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast of the country three weeks ago. Abubakar Shekau for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, in a video received by The Associated Press on Monday. "I abducted your girls," he said. The mass abduction and the military's failure to rescue the girls and young women has roused national outrage with protests in major cities.

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