Amid freed Nigeria schoolboys’ joyful reunions, fear lingers
Kankara, NigeriaAP Nigeria’s freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country’s north-west. Relieved parents hugged their sons tightly on Saturday in Kankara, where more than 340 boys were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School on the night […]
Freed Nigerian schoolboys return home, tell of beatings and hunger
Katsina, NigeriaReuters Scores of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in north-west Nigeria arrived back home on Friday, many of them barefoot and wrapped in blankets after their week-long ordeal. The boys, dressed in dusty clothes, looked dazed and weary but otherwise well as they got off buses in the city of Katsina. Rescued Nigerian […]
Last two kidnapped boys released in Cameroon
The last two schoolboys of the 79 kidnapped from a school in west Cameroon still being held by their captors were released on Monday along with the school’s principal and a staff member, according to reports. The BBC reports that the final four hostages were dropped off at a town about 24 kilometres from their […]
LAST LETTERS: FROM MOSUL SCHOOLBOYS TO ISLAMIC STATE ‘MARTYRS’
Drawing on documents found in eastern Mosul following its recapture by Iraqi forces, Reuters reporter STEPHEN KALIN, in an article published by Religion News Service, looks for some insight into the mindset of schoolboys prepared to die for the so-called Islamic State…