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November 8, 2025

Amid freed Nigeria schoolboys’ joyful reunions, fear lingers

December 21, 2020 Lekan Oyekanmi and Sunday Alamba, Associated Press

KANKARA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country’s northwest. Relieved parents hugged their sons […]

Boko Haram claims abduction of students in northern Nigeria

December 15, 2020 Sam Oloukoya and Carley Petesch, Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria — Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria’s northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks […]