Yawota, Nigeria, June 19, 2026 (AFP) - Families in anguish as Nigeria students spend month in captivity

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2026-06-19

In their small, decrepit home in Yawota, in Nigeria's southwestern Oyo state, sisters Deborah Oyedele and Abosede Ojedele took turns consoling each other as they waited for news of their abducted children. Oyedele's son and Ojedele's two boys were among 46 children -- aged two to 16 -- and staff seized by gunmen from their schools on May 15 in two neighbouring towns on the edges of Old Oyo National Park. Southwestern Nigeria has long been conside......

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