Chibok girls still undereducated, unsafe five years after abductions
By DW
29 April 2019 |
5:22 am
Five years after the kidnapping of 276 girls from Chibok, many schools in northeastern Nigeria are still not safe. Student numbers have dropped and education is still suffering under the threat of Boko Haram.
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