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Nigeria’s Menace of Abduction of School Children

The Nigerian authorities’ persistent failure to address the repeated abductions of school children and teachers in several parts of Nigeria is putting the education of a generation of children at risk.

Since the abduction of the Chibok school girls in April 2014, at least 18 mass abductions of school children have been documented by Amnesty International, highlighting the authorities’ consistent failure to protect children and teachers from attacks and guarantee access to education.

Authorities continue to fail to ensure justice and accountability for all the previous mass abductions:

"...be very thankful that the government can't control the air we breathe" – Daniel Regha says