NIGERIA
A Terrible Routine
Unknown gunmen kidnapped 42 people, including 27 students during an attack on a boarding school in north-central Nigeria Wednesday in what has become a terrible routine for Africa’s most populous nation, Reuters reported.
The attackers stormed the institution in the Kagara district in Niger state overnight, killing one student in the attack.
President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack and sent security chiefs to coordinate rescue operations.
Northern states have been plagued by such kidnappings by armed groups for years, and it remains unclear who perpetrated the latest abduction.
The Islamist Boko Haram group is known for carrying out similar kidnappings in the past, including the 2014 abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok. About 100 kidnapped girls remain missing to this day.
The latest kidnapping comes two months after gunmen abducted nearly 350 boys in the northwestern Katsina state. The boys were later rescued by the security forces.
Buhari’s government has been criticized for its handling of national security amid rising insecurity and kidnappings in the country.
In January, the president appointed a new military high command.
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