02/05/2014
'Now I'm scared of everyone': fear and mistrust after Nigerian mass abduction
Witnesses and security officials recount how Boko Haram militants rolled into Chibok and kidnapped 300 schoolgirls A mother cries out during a demonstration in Abuja with others who have daughters among the kidnapped schoolgirls. Photograph: Gbemiga Olamikan/AP Just before midnight on 14 April in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, pastor Enoch Mark's phone rang. Half asleep, it took him a while to make sense of the voice talking rapidly down the line. Eventually four words penetrated: Boko Haram are coming. The caller, a friend in a neighbouring village, said a convoy of trucks and 4x4s bristling with armed insurgents was heading his way. At first, Mark did not panic. It was for such...
