Free Nigerian Students Recount Mass Kidnapping
Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.
Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.
The abduction of over 260 children from a Catholic school last month was the latest in a recent spate of kidnappings in the country.
Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.
Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country.
The kidnapping echoed the abduction of the Chibok girls 11 years ago and came as U.S. officials pressed the country to address violence against Christians.
American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa’s most populous country, despite President Trump’s order, officials said.
The president said he would halt all aid and go in “guns-a-blazing” to target militants.
Accusing Nigeria of not doing enough to protect Christians from violence, President Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to prepare for action.
A former military strongman, he won one democratic election in 2015, and another in 2019, but struggled to make good on promises to tackle corruption and terrorism.