We’ll take it up Kidnapping with FG, others – Ahmed Lawan

Students at the school in Nigeria who escaped a raid by gunmen that saw hundreds of their friends kidnapped have been speaking about their ordeal. More than 300 students from the all-boys Government Science school in Kankara, in the northwestern Katsina state, who were abducted on Friday night remained missing on Sunday.

A total of 333 students from the Government Science Secondary School remain missing after the Friday night attack by gunmen on the boys' school. In an audio message, a man identifying himself as Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau claimed that the group is "behind what happened in Katsina," local media reported.

A man claiming to be the leader of Boko Haram has said, in an audio recording, that the Islamist militant group is responsible for the abduction of more than 300 schoolboys in northwest Nigeria.

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Islamist militants have been rampaging in northern Mozambique, but due to a restrictive government information policy, there have been few details from the ground. DW correspondent Adrian Kriesch got some rare insights.

In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, discussed the country’s convoluted political structure, social upheavals, and menace of banditry, criminality, and the absence of governance at the centre.

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