In mid-April, more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok - TopicsExpress



          

In mid-April, more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok boarding school in northern Nigeria by gunmen from the Islamist sect Boko Haram. Three weeks later, most of those girls are still missing. More than a week ago, a group of Nigerians launched the Twitter campaign #BringBackOurGirls, sparking global outrage over the attack. And on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry offered to send a team to help rescue the children. Meanwhile, Nigerias nightmare gets worse by the day: On Monday, the leader of the group, which has terrorized the country for years, threatened to sell the girls off as slaves, and on Tuesday, Boko Haram kidnapped another eight girls. But lets back up a minute. What is Boko Haram, exactly? And why do its members kidnap schoolgirls? My explainer, up at Mother Jones: -Erika
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 19:30:01 +0000

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