As the haunting chronicle of the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls from a boarding house in Nigeria's Chibok in 2014 completes a decade, hope hangs by a thread for the families whose loved ones are still not back home.
As the haunting chronicle of the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls from a boarding house in Nigeria's Chibok in 2014 completes a decade, hope hangs by a thread for the families whose loved ones are still not back home.Families of kidnapped Chibok school girls desperately pray for their loved ones return. Photo: Reuters
Exactly ten years ago, at Chibok in Borno State of northeast Nigeria, hundreds of armed marauders from the terror outfit Boko Haram stormed the boarding house of a girls' secondary school and unleashed a reign of terror that haunts the country to this day. On the 10th anniversary of the attack, parents and relatives of victims who remain in captivity describe a feeling of helplessness and utter despair.
The most recent mass kidnapping took place on March 7 this year when motorcycle-borne gunmen abducted 287 students from a government-run secondary school at Kuriga in Kaduna State."We should look at the economic drivers of terrorism. We need to look at the root causes of radicalisation and why these groups keep growing," Mubarak Aliyu, a political and security risk analyst, tells TRT Afrika.
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