Nigeria Fails 109 Missing Chibok Girls 8 Years After Abduction
April 14 marks eight years since 279 schoolgirls were taken by the armed group Boko Haram in Chibok. Some escaped, and others were later released, following intense campaigning by civil society organisations and negotiations by the government. The girls were sleeping at their school, awaiting exams, when they were taken and at least 100 girls are still being held captive by the militants. The abduction sparked a global outcry.
Since then, abductions have continued. Between December 2020 and October last year, 1,436 schoolchildren - and 17 teachers - were abducted from schools in Nigeria by armed groups. The recent upsurge has triggered prolonged school shutdowns - and in turn led to a decline in school enrolment and attendance, as well as a rise in child marriage and pregnancies of school-age girls.
More than 1,500 Nigerian school children have been abducted by armed groups and the Nigerian authorities are failing to protect them, Amnesty International has said in a new investigation.
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Nigeria:
24 Chibok Parents Dead, 109 Girls Still in Captivity
Daily Trust, 15 April 2022
Chibok community in the Southern part of Borno State on Thursday joined the rest of the country to mark the eighth year anniversary of the abduction of schoolgirls in their domain,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Six Mass Kidnappings After the Chibok Girls
Daily Trust, 14 April 2022
On this day, eight years ago, Boko Haram insurgents invaded a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, at dead of night and abducted hundreds of teenage schoolgirls. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Eight Years After Chibok More Than 1,500 Children Abducted By Armed Groups
AI London, 13 April 2022
Eight years after the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls by Boko Haram, more than 1,500 Nigerian school children have been abducted by armed groups and the Nigerian authorities… Read more »
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Nigeria:
8 Years After - Chibok Memories Still Linger
Leadership, 14 April 2022
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the mass abduction of school girls in Chibok town which brought the once obscure Borno State community to global attention. On the night of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Chibok Parents Lament 8 Years of Agony
Daily Trust, 14 April 2022
Some parents of missing Chibok schoolgirls have expressed frustration and anguish over what they described as 8 years of sorrow and pain. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Fear of Abduction Causing Drop in School Enrolment - Amnesty International
Vanguard, 14 April 2022
Eight years after the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls by Boko Haram, and with more than 1,500 school children abducted by armed groups since the Chibok incident, affected… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Chibok Girls - UNICEF Seeks Safety of Learners in Schools to Encourage Girls' Education
Vanguard, 13 April 2022
THE United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF,has appealed to authorities in Nigeria to make schools safe and provide a secure learning environment for every child in the country,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Bandits Abduct Female Students in Zamfara
Premium Times, 13 April 2022
Local sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the bandits attacked a privately run hostel opposite the school at around 11.24 p.m. and abducted many of the students in the residence. Read more »
InFocus
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The abduction of 276 girls from Chibok in Borno State, by Boko Haram militants on April 14, 2014 sparked a global outcry that gave rise to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Many years of interventions by the army and the government saw the release of a number of the girls - but not eveyone was freed. The anguish of the girls' parents has not ended, almost 7 years later. The latest news from local media is that some of the
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April 14 marks seven years since 279 schoolgirls were taken by the armed group Boko Haram in Chibok. Some escaped, others were later released, following intense campaigning by civil society organisations and negotiations by the government. However, more than 100 girls remain in captivity.
Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since the Chibok girls were taken, resulting in
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The abduction of 276 girls by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014 sparked a global outcry. The girls were sleeping at their school, awaiting exams, when they were taken and at least 100 girls are still being held captive by the militants. President Muhammadu Buhari says the girls have not been forgotten.
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The growing rate of attacks targeted at schools and the number of kidnapping cases in schools has become a source of concern to many stakeholders in the Nigerian education sector. Bandits hope to make quick cash by forcing the families and authorities to pay ransom money for their hostages. At least 42 learners and teachers were taken from the Government Science College in Kagara. The attack follows another incident at the end
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says at least one million children will likely stay away from school because of the threat of violence, following a series of mass kidnappings and attacks targeting learners in 2021 alone. More than 1,000 learners have been taken for ransom by criminal gangs in Nigeria's northwest and central states since December 2020. Most have been released after ransom negotiations, but only after weeks or
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