Nigeria: Search On for Missing Schoolgirls In Latest Kidnapping, Seven Years After Chibok

By Lisa Vives

Nail-biting negotiations are underway for the release of 317 schoolgirls kidnapped on February 26 in north-western Nigeria — a region beset by banditry that takes thousands of lives each year. Terms of a large ransom are reportedly being discussed but officially denied.

Frightened parents who raced to the...