NIGERIA
Unsafe at Any School
The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others after a Boko Haram attack that was a grim reminder of the terror group’s abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in 2014.
“Everybody is celebrating their coming with songs and praises to God almighty,” Reuters quoted a parent of one of the rescued girls as saying. However, at least 13 students (more than 50, according to the New York Times) may still be missing, and the agency wasn’t able to confirm how two of the girls died.
Police and state officials said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that the girls had been abducted. Nigerian authorities often deny or downplay Boko Haram attacks.
The 2014 Chibok abduction drew global attention to Nigeria’s nine-year war against the terror group, whose name roughly translates to “Western education is forbidden.” More than 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict.
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