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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat happened to "our girls" in Nigeria?
What happened to the worlds outrage and the effort to bringing them back? Where are these kids? Who hasn't an effort been made by the Nigerians to squash Boko Haram?
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)That's what happens when you turn social activism into trendy pop culture nonsense.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Whether or not we could safely recover them even if located, is a different story.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Planes Searching for Boko Haram Abductees Spot Girls in Nigeria
Groups Were Seen Together in Remote Locations, Raising Hopes They are Kidnapped Students
By Drew Hinshaw in Gombe, Nigeria, and Dion Nissenbaum in Washington
Updated Aug. 5, 2014
Recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to be large groups of girls held together in remote locations, raising hopes among domestic and foreign officials that they are among the group that Boko Haram abducted from a boarding school in April, U.S. and Nigerian officials said.
The surveillance suggests that at least some of the 219 schoolgirls still held captive haven't been forced into marriage or sex slavery, as had been feared, but instead are being used as bargaining chips for the release of prisoners.
The U.S. aerial imagery matches what Nigerian officials say they hear from northern Nigerians who have interacted with the Islamist insurgency: that some of Boko Haram's most famous set of captives are getting special treatment, compared with the hundreds of other girls the group is suspected to have kidnapped. Boko Haram appears to have seen the schoolgirls as of higher value, given the global attention paid to their plight, those officials said.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who faces re-election in February, is under political pressure to secure the girls' release, with some people urging him to agree to a prisoner swap....
http://www.blackpressusa.com/2014/08/vigils-held-for-kidnapped-nigerian-girls/#sthash.YZIYlJJU.dpbs
Vigils Held for Kidnapped Nigerian Girls
August 5, 2014
by Craig D. Frazier
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News
Last week, a number of local and international events occurred to mark that it has been more than 100 days since the abduction of the Chibok pupils.
In Manhattan, a silent candlelight vigil, organized by Nkechie Ogbodo, president of Kechis Project, was held across the street from the Nigerian consulate. Members of the organization called for the return of the Nigerian girls and were joined by faith-based leaders and community activist.
We are praying and honoring them so they can stay strong, come back safely and have a chance to live whatever is left of their broken lives, Ogbodo told the AmNews.
Since 2010, Kechis Project, a New York-based nonprofit organization, has empowered underprivileged and under-represented girls in Nigeria. The Nigerian native is responsible for spearheading multiple campaigns here in New York and across the globe that highlight disparities faced by young females in Africa....
Nigerian girls deserve continued attention: Our view
The response of President Goodluck Jonathan, in Washington for a summit this week, doesn't inspire much confidence
The Editorial Board, USA Today
August 5, 2014
(excerpt)
Jonathan, in Washington this week for a U.S.-Africa summit, says his government is making every effort to find the girls. But he offers no evidence, is dismissive of the foreign help and argues that divulging any details could compromise the mission.
Jonathan has said repeatedly that a military operation to free the girls would probably result in the deaths of many, all but ruling it out. In the place of military action is bargaining, and Nigerian leaders have sent ambiguous signals about who is negotiating and what's on the table.
The challenge of fighting militants who casually sacrifice civilian lives in the name of religion isn't confined to Nigeria. American forces have struggled inconclusively with extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade.
The world's anger can sometimes seem a weak candle next to the flame of intolerance and murder, but in the case of the captive Nigerian schoolgirls, it's important to keep it burning....
MORE at http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/05/nigerian-schoolgirls-boko-haram-bringbackourgirls-editorials-debates/13643531/
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)And the original girls in question are still missing and presumed never to return.
The Nigerian government claims to be trying to squash Boko Haram but the consensus is they fear these guys and their army doesn't really do much.
reorg
(3,317 posts)while their minders were asleep.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28189035
Still, it's always dangerous where Muslim fundamentalism/extremism/whatever/terrorism festers, so we better keep watching!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The EYN has asked Americans to be in prayer and fasting during the week of August 17-24. Details here:
http://www.brethren.org/partners/nigeria/week-of-prayer-and-fasting.html
While Americans aren't accustomed to taking action that doesn't involve the military, this is the request to us from the Church in Nigeria as they continue to work to recover the rest of the captives.
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)From your link:
More than 60 women and girls are reported to have escaped from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, security sources say.
They were among 68 abducted last month near the town of Damboa in north-eastern Borno state.
But some women who made it home said they feared other escapees had been recaptured, villagers told the BBC.
Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from Borno's Chibok town in April.
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)they give updates.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)pull out all the stops