Why are schoolchildren being kidnapped in Nigeria? | Start Here
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Why are officials in Nigeria unable to protect schoolchildren from mass kidnappings? Kidnappers in Nigeria are increasingly targeting schools and abducting hundreds of students for ransom. #AJStartHere explains #Al_Jazeera_English #Start_Here #Al_Jazeera_Digital_Shows Let’s talk about the kidnappings. Children in Nigeria are being abducted from schools — often hundreds of boys and girls at a time. They’re taken for ransom. Some of them make it home. But many haven’t. So who’s behind the kidnappings? Why are they still happening? And why have the people in charge failed to stop them? It’s hard to get an exact number but around 700 people have been abducted in Nigeria so far this year — most […]