Paris, Nov 22, 2025 (AFP) - Nigeria's history of mass abductions

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2025-11-22

Nigerian gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers from a school in north central Niger state in one of the country's largest mass abductions. Since Islamist militants kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok town more than a decade ago, Nigeria has struggled with a series of mass kidnappings, mostly carried out by criminal gangs looking for ransom payments. Often, gunmen attack remote boarding schools where they know a lack o......

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