Targets for ransom: Outrage in Nigeria over wave of school kidnappings

Another school kidnapping in northern Nigeria, another release, another denial of ransom payment. The freeing of 279 girls in Zamfara state means relief for parents and concern over what is now become a pattern. We are far from 2014 when the whole planet picked up on the hashtag ’bring back our girls’ with the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram in northeast Borno state. Subscribe to France 24 now: FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7
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