bring-back-our-girls

First Schoolgirl Rescued From Infamous 2014 Boko Haram Kidnapping

Jordan Sargent · 05/18/16 12:00PM

Yesterday in Nigeria’s Sambisa Forest near the Cameroon border, anti-Boko Haram forces doing a nightly patrol were met by one of the 219 girls who were taken from their school dormitories by the terrorist organization in 2014.

Report: Boko Haram Kidnaps 20 More Women

Aleksander Chan · 06/09/14 06:47PM

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly abducted 20 women from the village of Garkin Fulani, Nigeria, just miles away from the Chibok, where hundreds of girls were taken in April. The Nigerian Islamic militants forced the girls into their vehicles by gunpoint and also reportedly kidnapped three young men attempting to stop the abduction.

Nigerian Defense Chief: We've Located the Abducted Girls

Dayna Evans · 05/26/14 05:46PM

Air Marshal Alex Badeh spoke with demonstrators this afternoon in Abuja, Nigeria to confirm that the nearly 300 missing schoolgirls, who'd been abducted by Islamic extremists last month, have been located. However, Badeh remarked that the girls cannot be apprehended with force.

Dayna Evans · 05/18/14 01:39PM

Person one, two, and three made a quick stop at the FedEx Office before the Cannes premiere of somesuch movie about somesuch expending to print out pieces of paper with words, for what? Who knows who cares, no big. Hashtags dropped, meaning lost. Image via AP/Alastair Grant.