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105 Nigerian Girls Are Missing Because Donald Trump Is a Racist Idiot
Almost a week after Boko Haram extremists kidnapped more than 100 girls, the young women remain missing, leaving parents in the northern Nigerian town distraught and angry. Many fear that the girls abducted from Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe state, Nigeria, on Monday, will become child brides for the Boko Haram…
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#BringBackOurGirls: 82 Chibok Girls Finally Reunited With Their Families
More than 80 Chibok, Nigeria, schoolgirls were reunited with their families Saturday, about two weeks after their release by terrorist group Boko Haram, according to the Nigerian government. In April 2014, 276 schoolgirls were captured from their school by the militant outfit, which pledged allegiance to ISIS, or the Islamic State group, prompting the global…
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#BringBackOurGirls: 83 Chibok Students Released by Boko Haram
Slowly, surely, more of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram are finding their way out of captivity. The Associated Press reports that Nigeria’s government confirms that 82 kidnapped Chibok, Nigeria, schoolgirls have been released and are expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in the capital, Abuja. Buhari’s office tweeted the…
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Chibok Girls Released by Boko Haram Reunited With Families
The 21 Chibok schoolgirls who were released to the Nigerian government last week after being kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram more than two years ago have been reunited with their families, USA Today reports. The girls were among the more than 200 students who were taken from their school in April 2014, bringing…
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This Time, Let's Not Stop Talking About Boko Haram
One of my duties for EBONY is to decide which of the day’s news stories will be published on the site. There’s only space for 10, so after sifting through the dozens of articles that populate my Facebook and Twitter feeds every morning and searching a dozen or so different news sites (The Washington Post,…