LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A new video from Nigeria’s Boko Haram purports to show schoolgirls, covered in hijab and reciting prayers in Arabic, who are being held captive by the […]
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Nigeria Refused Help to Search for Kidnapped Girls
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The president of Nigeria for weeks refused international help to search for more than 300 girls abducted from a school by Islamic extremists, one in a […]
Nigerian Girl Describes Kidnap, 276 Still Missing
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The girls in the school dorm could hear the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. So when armed men in uniforms burst in and promised […]
Boko Haram Threatens to Sell Kidnap Girls
(Updated 5/5/2014) LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) —Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader threatened in a videotaped statement seen on Monday to sell the more than 200 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in […]
Nigeria Initiates New “Jail the Gays” Law
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police, working off a list of 168 suspects purportedly obtained through torture, are arresting dozens of gay men in Nigeria’s northern Bauchi state, human rights activists […]