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Activists have identified the victim as Amina ali Darsha Nkeki, the report states. She is the first of the girls rescued from the 2014 mass kidnapping that sparked the hashtag and search movement #BringBackOurGirls.
The president-elect of Nigeria delivered some heartbreaking news on the anniversary of the kidnappings that sparked the #BringBackOurGirls movement. It was just one year ago that Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a school one night, and there doesn’t seem to be any progress in the case. The Associated Press reports Muhammadu Buhari […]
UNICEF claims in a new report that Boko Haram has ruined far more lives than the we knew about and it’s hoping social media activism can inspire some change. On April 14, it will have been a year since Boko Haram kidnapped more than 230 girls from a school in Nigeria. While the world, has […]
In 2005, we were all talking about Darfur. Two years prior, a war of words emerged between the uprising of liberated group against the Sudanese government, who they believed were oppressing the non-Arab community. The latter’s answer to the conflict was slaughtering hundreds of innocent civilians. Eleven years later, George Clooney, along with John Prendergast and […]
Boko Haram is still terrorizing Nigeria and all we can say is #BringBackOurGirls. It’s been 10 months since they kidnapped the Chibok tribe schoolgirls and a majority of them are still being hold hostage, only a small percentage of girls have managed to escape. Three of those girls, Abigail John, Dorcas Aiden, and the third escapee who […]
Over the weekend, an alleged 10-year-old Nigerian girl detonated explosives that were strapped to her body in a crowded market in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The explosives detonated as the girl was being screened with a metal detector at the market’s entrance, he said. It’s standard procedure for people to be screened before entering the market, as […]
Boko Haram, the same terrorist group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls last spring, has executed the “deadliest massacre” in the its history, according to Amnesty International. It is feared that over 2,000 civilians have been murdered, with the majority of them being women, children and the elderly. Many of the bodies that were found […]
FROM NEWSONE.COM According to Nigerian government officials, in addition to the ceasefire, the nearly 300 schoolgirls — who were kidnapped as they took exams in Chibok — will be released, reports the BBC. Nigerian presidential aide Hassan Tukur told BBC Focus on Africa that the agreement was sealed after a month of negotiations, mediated by […]
The rest of the world may have forgotten about the girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria, but Alicia Keys has not and she’s doing something about it. As of Tuesday, it’s been six months since Boko Haram abducted more than 230 girls in the middle of the night. Some of them have been able […]
Some of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram this past Spring may be coming home soon. There haven’t been many updates about the progress being made in the seemingly forgotten #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Dodgy information from the Nigerian government certainly, but nothing substantial about how close officials are to finding and recovering the girls, though. Initially, about 300 girls […]
Boko Haram is still snatching children from their families as the militant group kidnapped a large number of boys this week. First they came for the girls, now Boko Haram hs shifted their focus to young men. The Islamic extremist group abducted dozens of boys and men during a raid in Northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, Reuters reports. […]
