30/04/2014
Rescue them, mothers of abducted schoolgirls tell Nigerian government
Hundreds of Nigerians yesterday braved heavy rain to march on parliament to demand intensified efforts by the government to rescue more than 200 missing schoolgirls abducted by Islamist insurgents over a fortnight ago. Activists had called for a ?million-woman? march in the capital Abuja but turnout fell far short of that, despite massive support on social-networking sites and in the Nigerian media. The mass kidnappings, carried out by fighters from the al-Qa?eda-inspired Boko Haram group, have stunned Nigerians largely blunted to the violence that has wracked the northeastern part of the country in the past five...
