Report: Nigerian Officials Ignored Warnings of Kidnappings
In Nigeria, more than 200 schoolgirls remain missing, and a new video released by Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims to show about 100 of the girls who were kidnapped. Abubakar Shekau, the...
View ArticleBoko Haram's Terrorism Takes Toll on Nigerian Economy
At least 118 people have been killed in twin blasts in the Nigerian city of Jos. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan blamed the terrorist group Boko Haram for the attacks. The violence comes as the...
View ArticleCovering the Nigerian Schoolgirl Kidnapping
Boko Haram's kidnapping of more than 250 Nigerian schoolgirls has received global attention thanks to a viral hashtag, #BringBackOurGirls, but violence by Boko Haram is nothing new in Nigeria. Bob...
View ArticleSchoolgirl Kidnapped by Boko Haram Returns Home
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.More than two years later, one of the nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram was found near the Cameroon border, officials...
View ArticleReturning to the Chibok Girls, and the Boko Haram Kidnappings
On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Novelist Helon Habila joins us to discuss his book, The Chibok Girls:...
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