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In an interesting piece at Huffington Post’s Black Voices, writer Charlotte Alfred updates the situation on the Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by the Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram nearly 5 months ago. Their abduction sparked global outrage and a huge campaign calling for their rescue, partly propelled by the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. However, basically […]

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said Monday. Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had denied reports of the mass abduction from three villages in the northeast state of Borno on June 22. Chibok local government chairman […]

The Boko Haram military has reportedly kidnapped 20 more women in Northern Nigeria. The BBC reports: The latest incident occurred close to where more than 200 schoolgirls were snatched from the remote Chibok town near the Cameroonian border on 14 April. A member of a local vigilante group set up to resist such attacks said […]

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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian government official said “all options are open” in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their Islamic extremist captors as U.S. surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft started flying over the West African country. Boko Haram, the militant group that is holding some 276 female students it kidnapped last month […]

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The Russ Parr Morning Show crew weighs in on the latest news regarding the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, as well as what we can all do to help support the efforts to get all of them safely returned to their families. Keep Up With The Russ Parr Morning Show … LIKE Him On Facebook!

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A panel of Fox News contributors mocked the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag on Sunday, suggesting the Twitter phrase is a useless “exercise in self-esteem.” The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has gone viral worldwide sparking global awareness of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group. Celebrities, politicians and world leaders have united behind the […]

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country’s northeast. The attack escalates Nigeria’s growing crisis from a campaign of bombings, massacres and abductions being […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls missing since they were kidnapped from school three weeks ago by an Islamist extremist group that has threatened to sell them. Obama said the immediate priority is finding the girls, but […]

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Los Angeles – Over 300 women and men came together in South Los Angeles on Monday, May 5 to call attention to the plight of 276 kidnapped and missing Nigerian girls. The Bring Back Our Girls Los Angeles rally which was held at the intersection of Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards in Los […]