A decade on, tragedy of Nigeria’s Chibok Girls endures outside the spotlight
Chibok, Nigeria Reuters Ten years ago, Solomon Maina’s daughter, Debora, was one of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in the middle of the night by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants. Global outrage was swift. A ubiquitous “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign, drawing support from the likes of Michelle Obama and Sylvester Stallone, shined a […]
Slain Lebanese schoolgirl sisters among latest victims of Mideast war
Aynata, Lebanon Reuters Sisters Rimas, Daline and Lianne Chour were preparing to travel to Beirut for temporary schooling there because of escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah militants in their native southern Lebanon. When they set off on Sunday, a missile Lebanon says Israel fired hit their car, killing all three and their grandmother, and […]
Iran says there were no school poisonings, blames foreign “enemies”
Reuters Iran’s intelligence ministry on Friday accused foreign “enemies” and dissidents of fomenting fears over suspected poisonings of schoolgirls, saying its investigation found no actual poisoning. The wave of suspected attacks has affected thousands of schoolgirls and provoked public anger, after months of protests against Iran’s clerical rulers following the death of a young woman […]
Iran’s Khamenei calls girls’ poisoning “unforgivable” after public anger
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Monday that the poisoning schoolgirls is an “unforgivable” crime that should be punished by death if deliberate, state TV reported, amid public anger over a wave of suspected attacks in schools. Over 1,000 girls have fallen ill after being poisoned since November, according to state media […]
Protests break out in Iran over schoolgirl illnesses
Dubai, United Arab ErmiratesReuters Worried parents protested in Iran’s capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to Iranian news agencies and social media videos. The so-far unexplained illnesses have affected hundreds of schoolgirls in recent months. Iranian officials believe […]
Chibok schoolgirl freed in Nigeria seven years after abduction, governor says
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday. The raid on the school in the north-eastern town one night in April 2014 sparked […]
Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in north-west Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release. Addressing the public in St Peter’s Square, Francis said he was adding his voice to others including Nigeria’s bishop in condemning what he described as “the vile abduction” of […]
Two killed, 15 schoolgirls injured in Japan stabbing – NHK
Updated: 8am, 29th May, 2019Tokyo, JapanReuters A knife-wielding man slashed at a group of schoolgirls at a bus stop in Japan on Tuesday, killing one girl and an adult who may have been the father of one child, media reported. Sixteen other girls between the ages of six and 12 and a woman were wounded […]
Nightmares, guilt and awards: five years after the Chibok kidnappings
Abuja, NigeriaThomson Reuters Foundation Five years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram, freed Chibok girls have nightmares about their 100 missing classmates and are burdened by guilt for surviving, while shielding parents of dead friends from the truth about their daughters’ fate. The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls on 14th April, 2014, from their school […]
Hidden in diaries, untold stories of Boko Haram survivors feature in film
Thomson Reuters Foundation Untold stories of young Nigerian women kidnapped by Boko Haram highlight a documentary debuting on Monday that reveals diaries kept by survivors forbidden from talking about their captivity. The diaries, secretly given to the US-based documentary producers by former captives, detail life under the jihadist group that, according to the United Nations, […]