Provisionally good news: Nigeria's Air Marshal Alex Barde announced that the location of the nearly 300 missing Nigerian girls has been discovered. However, he is reticent to immediately use force to actually rescue the girls, fearing that such a move could put the girls at more risk. But details of their…
Six of the 53 Nigerian girls who escaped Boko Haram kidnappers last month are speaking out. One girl named Kuma Ishaku told the New York Times that the men came into their school at night shouting first that they were the military, and later that they were Boko Haram. Some who were forced into the trucks decided to…
The Nigerian government has denied Boko Haram’s offer to exchange the nearly 300 abducted girls for the Islamist militant group’s “brethren” in jail.
On Monday, Boko Haram released a new clip featuring 100 of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria. The terrorist group says they are ready to return their hostages in exchange for their imprisoned “brethren” in southern Nigeria.
This week, Twitter and Facebook's highly visible #BringBackOurGirls campaign highlighted the plight of 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. One problem: the most visible images used in that campaign are pictures of girls that aren't Nigerian. Or kidnapped. Or even technically girls…
Boko Haram’s penchant for stealing and killing schoolchildren may be more than even Al Qaeda can condone. As social media activists and even First Lady Michelle Obama spread the #bringbackourgirls hashtag, commenters on Islamist radical sites are worried that their Nigerian brothers might be doing too much and too…
On the heels of yet another group of Nigerian girls abducted by Islamist militants on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama joined the social media campaign to rescue the missing. In a twitpic on Wednesday, the FLOTUS held a sign reading #bringbackourgirls, adding to the international digital pressure upon the Nigerian…
In Nigeria, 8-11 more girls have been kidnapped, possibly by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, depending on conflicting reports. And as the international community grows more active with social media pressure and Senatorial letters to President Obama, the shame surrounding the Nigerian government seems to grow.…
Christen Smith posted a harrowing article on The Feminist Wire regarding the death of Cláudia Ferreira da Silva. Smith describes the incident as the following:
After reports surfaced that over 200 kidnapped Nigerian school girls may’ve been sold into sex slavery, parents of the missing protested in their Chibok town to spur the government into action and their cries rippled around the world.
The story of the 234 missing Nigerian school girls has taken a terrible turn — they have reportedly been married off to the terrorist militant Islamist group, Boko Haram.
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