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Nigeria has shut dozens of schools following a spate of abductions that saw hundreds of children kidnapped this week.
Gunmen kidnapped dozens of students from a Catholic school in northwest Nigeria as Washington ramps up pressure on Abuja to protect Christian communities.
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Nigeria’s president postpones G20 trip, vowing to step up efforts to rescue abducted schoolgirls
Nigeria’s president has postponed his trip to this weekend’s Group of 20 summit after promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week in a northwestern region of the country.
Two girls were rescued Tuesday after at least 25 school children and a teacher were kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria, local officials said.
Gunmen attacked a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in the country’s northwest.