NIGERIA
BringingBackOurBoys
More than 300 Nigerian boys were reunited with their parents over the weekend, a week after armed groups stormed a school in northwestern Nigeria in one of the largest kidnappings of school children in the country’s history, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Nigerian officials, including President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the army had freed all 344 boys from their kidnappers after six days in captivity, but didn’t provide further details.
Last week, the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for abducting the boys at the school in Katsina state. That claim could not be confirmed.
Analysts, meanwhile, remained skeptical of the government statements: They noted that if Boko Haram was indeed responsible, the attack marks a dangerous expansion of the group from its stronghold in the northeast.
In 2014, the militant group gained international notoriety when it kidnapped 274 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok.
More than 100 of the kidnapped girls remain missing.
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