Nigeria has endured a series of mass school abductions since 2014. According to the Associated Press, at least 1,799 students have been kidnapped in the past decade, underscoring the growing threat armed gangs pose across the country’s northwest and central regions.
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Safe but scarred: Papiri schoolchildren return home as others remain captive
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