12/05/2014
Nigeria abductions: Video of girls 'gives me hope'
A man whose three cousins are among more than 200 schoolgirls being held by Islamist militants in north-eastern Nigeria tells the BBC#039;s Focus on Africa radio programme of his reaction to the emergence of a video apparently showing about 130 of them. The man declined to give his name because of security concerns for his family. The girls, a mixture of Christians and Muslims, were taken by Boko Haram fighters on the night of Monday 14 April from their school hostel in the town of Chibok in Borno state. In the new video a group of them is shown reciting Koranic verses, after apparently converting to Islam....
