Sentences with phrase «nigerian schoolgirls»
The title story presents a stirring imagining of the aftermath of the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram that leaves us pondering what is lost when we survive the unsurvivable.
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Someday by Carnegie Medal Award nominated author Corinna Turner is a powerful novel based on a horrifying real event: the kidnapping of 272 Nigerian schoolgirls on April 14th, 2014.
More than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were recently abducted from their boarding school and are reported to be eventually sold as brides for $ 12 each.
The Nigerian schoolgirls who remain captives of Boko Haram militants «definitely» face the danger of being raped, a senior United Nations official has said.
Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo pointed out that when Council members asked to have a resolution about Boko Haram, the militant anti-education group that kidnappped Nigerian schoolgirls, their request was denied.
On today's Fox News Sunday, George Will and Brit Hume gave the #BringBackOurGirls awareness - raising campaign for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls what they intended to be a serious intellectual beat - down:
On today's Fox News Sunday, George Will and Brit Hume gave the #BringBackOurGirls awareness - raising campaign for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls what they intended to be a serious intellectual beat - down: «Do you think that this is significant and helpful and can make...
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ABUJA, March 21 - Some of the 110 schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Dapchi last month were brought back on Wednesday, two witnesses said.
Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has released all but one of the Dapchi schoolgirls who were kidnapped last month.
Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman told CNN, «We stumbled on the girls and may find more,» but added they are «not the Chibok girls,» referring to the group of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last spring that sparked the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
It has emerged advances by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram may have helped pressure it into releasing dozens of schoolgirls it abducted from a Christian village.
The Nigerian armed forces yesterday declared that it will not be in a hurry to rescue the secondary schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents...
Following the ceasefire deal reached between the Nigerian government and the Boko Haram sect, there are indications that the 218 schoolgirls abducted six months ago in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised by a United Kingdom based Nigerian activist, Philip Agbese, to overlook the offer to swap the abducted Chibok schoolgirls with...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed the schoolgirls were still in his country and had not been moved to neighbouring Cameroon.
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the abduction of schoolgirls from the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, as a national disaster and apologised to Nigerians over the incident.
Senate President Bukola Saraki on Thursday commended Buhari, the Nigerian security agencies, the government of Switzerland and the international community for the combined efforts that led to the release of 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls.
The prompt release of the Dapchi schoolgirls is another solid demonstration of the political will of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led APC administration to secure the lives of all Nigerians.
The Nigerian military has flown more than 300 sorties in the hunt for the abducted schoolgirls, a Major has told ITV News» Rageh Omaar.
The Nigerian military has flown more than 300 sorties in the search for the abducted schoolgirls, Major General Chris Olukolade has told ITV News» Rageh Omaar.
The Nigerian Chief of Defence staff has said that the military is aware of the location of the abducted schoolgirls but has decided not to reveal their whereabouts yet, the state news agency has said.
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described the release of 105 of the 110 abducted Dapchi Schoolgirls as an answered prayers of millions of Nigerians.
When the movie begins, Nakia is embedded with a group of women in Nigeria who have been kidnapped by a militant group, an unmistakable stand - in for the schoolgirls kidnapped by the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram.
Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.
Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three fabric sculptures, here piled on top of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.