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#WorldatFive: The kidnap-for-ransom industry is terrorising the northwest region of Nigeria, highlighted by the mass abduction of more than 600 schoolchildren over the past three months thetimes.co.uk/article/nigeri…
All the pupils have since been released but none of the perpetrators have been arrested, and the government seems clueless as to how to end the crisis, the latest in a litany of problems that is pushing Africa’s most populous nation closer to the brink.
“The very survival of the nation is at stake. The nation is falling apart,” the Catholic Bishops’ Conference said last week of the rise in nationwide violence
Chronic unemployment and a weak, muddled response have made the kidnap trade a lucrative one in a nation when nearly every other “industry” is going backwards
More than 10 million children, most of them girls, do not go to school — representing one in five globally — and the recent series of pupil kidnappings is certain to see that figure rise. Read more: thetimes.co.uk/article/nigeri…

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