Nigerian president accepts offer of help from David Cameron, who says abduction by Boko Haram is act of pure evil Britain is to send a small group of experts to Nigeria to help with the hunt for almost 300 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Downing Street has announced. It is understood that the team drawn from Whitehall departments including defence, international development...
Little is known about Nigeria's most wanted man, who is believed to behind the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls Abubakar Shakau laughs as he informs viewers he plans to sell almost 300 girls kidnapped by his fighters. "Why is everybody making noise just because I took some girls who were in western education anyway?" he says, almost giggling, in the video . Continue reading... ...
As outrage and concern spreads over the plight of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram, women in London and Los Angeles take to the streets, calling for action to rescue the teenagers, asking schoolchildren all over the world to wear red until the girls come home Continue reading... ...
People around the world have organised protests in response to a global social media campaign. Have you contributed on social media or offline? Share your experience via GuardianWitness The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria has lead to campaigns calling for their rescue, on social media and offline all around the world. After Nigerian protestors marched on parliament in the capital...
Occupy Nigeria taught us the power of social media maybe the Chibok schoolgirl abductions will shame politicians into serving Nigerians I watched the first lady of my country, Nigeria, shed tears for the abducted Chibok girls over two weeks after they went missing. I didn't actually see the tears fall: she covered her face with a large tissue. Her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, went on a political...
Government responds to pressure as US and Britain offer military support to find hundreds of girls taken by Boko Haram Nigerian police have offered a 50m naira (£177,000, or $300,000) reward for information on the whereabouts of 276 girls kidnapped by Islamist rebels three weeks ago in a sign that the government has begun to react to growing pressure at home and abroad. The call for help follows...
Interviews with eight anchors were scheduled as part of a carefully co-ordinated rollout of national climate change report After a day of breathless campaigning for its massive, 840-page climate change report , detailing the severe weather and dangerous events " happening now " in Americans' backyards, the White House turned to Al Roker for help. The jovial NBC Today Show anchor is one of...
Barack Obama is supplying experts to Abuja while Britain is ready to send military support to pursue Boko Haram militants The United States and Britain have offered military and technical support to Nigeria to hunt down the Islamist group which has abducted a new batch of schoolgirls, piling pressure on the Nigerian authorities to find and free the victims. Continue reading... ...
A video message from the leader of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, in which he claims responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in north-east Nigeria last month. Speaking in a mixture of Hausa and English, he threatens to 'sell them on the market', says Boko Haram opposes western education and declares war on Christians Continue reading... ...
Boko's Haram's atrocities against girls and young women are horrifying and we must overcome our lingering reluctance to interfere The other day on the bus, I overheard two former classmates, who had bumped into one another, systematically listing everyone they had been to school with who had since got married, or had babies. Those from outside London will sometimes forget that it is a city formed of...
Before Boko Haram started routinely kidnapping girls in northern Nigeria, more than 100 relatives of militants were held by authorities. Their leader vowed to retaliate The gunmen seized Hajja while she was picking corn in a field near her home in a small village in north-eastern Nigeria in July 2013. The 19-year-old had no choice but to follow her captors, insurgents with the Islamist group Boko...
The plight of kidnapped girls is set against the corruption and inequality that the west's economic war has helped to create It seems almost beyond belief that more than 200 girls can be kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria , held by the terrorist group Boko Haram, and threatened on a video shown worldwide with being sold into slavery by their captors. The disbelief is compounded by today's...
An ITN-assembled video profile looks at Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group who has claimed responsibility for the kidnap of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. The group's focus is to spread adherence to Sharia law, and violent clashes have been spreading through the country from the north-east Continue reading... ...
Whitehall source says government prepared to deploy special forces and spy planes if requested by Nigerian authorities Britain is prepared to send special forces and intelligence-gathering aircraft to Nigeria to help in the hunt for the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants, Whitehall officials have said. Options for British support for the Nigerian forces struggling to find nearly 300 young...
Team will include US military and law enforcement personnel Nearly 300 girls abducted from school in remote north-west Eight more girls kidnapped in Nigeria The United States is sending technical experts to aid the Nigerian government's search for nearly 300 teenage girls who were kidnapped from their school last month, the White House said on Tuesday. The mass abduction has sparked international...
Incident comes after Islamist rebels threaten to sell as slaves more than 270 girls abducted from secondary school in April Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight more girls, aged between eight and 15, in an overnight raid on a village in the sect's stronghold in north-eastern Borno state. Continue reading... ...
Islamist militants' leader threatens to sell the more than 270 girls abducted in north-east Nigeria on 14 April The leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said that more than 270 schoolgirls snatched from their dormitories were "slaves" whom he planned to sell in the market. "I abducted your girls," a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the group's leader, said...
Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, makes his first comments about the 276 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists three weeks ago. There has been growing public anger at the way the government has reacted to the mass kidnapping. Speaking during a televised debate, Jonathan promised the parents of the missing children that the government would rescue them. 'We promise that wherever these girls...
Authorities detain Naomi Mutah Nyadar over claims she falsely claimed to be mother of one of the missing schoolgirls Nigerian authorities have arrested one of the leaders of a protest calling on them to do more to find more than 200 girls abducted by Islamist rebels, a source in the presidency and another organiser of the protest have said. Boko Haram insurgents, who want to create an Islamic state...
The government has done little to try and rescue the abducted school children, and what it has done is down to public pressure My reasons for participating in the "million-women march" in Nigeria are simple: 276 girls were abducted in the middle of the night from a boarding school in Chibok in the north-eastern Borno state, and the government has failed to act except when faced with international...