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Nigeria: 300 kidnapped teenagers released

2021-03-02T06:25:20.635Z


Armed men attacked a boarding school at the end of last week, taking these young girls with them. The hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped last Friday from their boarding school in Jangebe, in northwestern Nigeria, were released and are on Tuesday morning in the premises of the Zamfara government, the governor of this state told AFP. Dr. Bello Matawalle. “I am happy to report that the girls have been released. They have just arrived in the government house, and are in good health, ”he told an


The hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped last Friday from their boarding school in Jangebe, in northwestern Nigeria, were released and are on Tuesday morning in the premises of the Zamfara government, the governor of this state told AFP. Dr. Bello Matawalle.

“I am happy to report that the girls have been released.

They have just arrived in the government house, and are in good health, ”he told an AFP journalist.

“The total number of girls abducted from the school is 279, they are all here with us, we thank Allah,” added the governor.

The authorities initially claimed that 317 young girls were missing after the attack on this boarding school in Zamfara state on the night of February 25-26 by armed men.

An AFP journalist saw hundreds of young girls, wearing sky-blue hijabs, gathered at the government house.

Mass kidnappings for ransoms

It was the fourth attack on schools in less than three months in northwestern Nigeria, where criminal groups known as "bandits" have been escalating large-scale cattle raids and kidnapping for ransom for over. ten years.

Zamfara authorities are used to discussing amnesty agreements with the criminal groups with whom they have been negotiating for over a year in exchange for handing over their weapons.

It was the officials of the state of Zamfara who had also negotiated the release last December of 344 boys who had been kidnapped by bandits from their boarding school in the neighboring state of Katsina.

With each release, the authorities deny paying any ransom to the kidnappers, but this is however little doubt for the security experts who fear that this will lead to an increase in kidnappings in these regions plagued by extreme poverty and little or no at all secure.

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This new mass kidnapping revived the memory of the kidnapping of Chibok in 2014, when the jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 high school girls, causing worldwide emotion.

More than a hundred of them are still missing and no one knows how many are still alive.

But these two kidnappings are to be distinguished: the "bandits" act above all for the lure of profit, and not for ideological reasons, even if some have forged links with jihadist groups in the northeast.

Source: leparis

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